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Summer Campers: 1943

August 1943. Arden, New York. "Rest period at Camp Gaylord White, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service." Medium format nitrate negative by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. View full size.

August 1943. Arden, New York. "Rest period at Camp Gaylord White, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service." Medium format nitrate negative by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. View full size.

 

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The Union Settlement Association was founded in NYC as a charitable organization to assist new immigrants and "settlers" of all races and ethnicities.

In 1917 the Union Settlement established three campgrounds in Palisades Interstate Park: Camp Nathan Hale for boys, Camp Gaylord White for girls and Camp Ellen Marvin for mothers and young children.The camps exposed tens of thousands of inner-city youngsters, from 1917 to the 1960s, to the natural world.

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