William Golden was an optometrist and amateur photographer. His relationship to Camp Wo-Chi-Ca is unknown.
Camp Wo-Chi-Ca (which stood for Workers Children's Camp) was a children's summer camp in New Jersey. The camp, which was founded in 1934 and ran through the early 1950s, was mainly organized by the International Workers Order (I.W.O.) and was affiliated with the Communist Party, USA. The camp was coeducational and racially diverse. Campers lived together in huts or tents, helped with camp chores, and participated in sports, concerts, plays, and political discussions. Camp Wo-Chia-Ca also received well-known visitors like Paul Robeson, Howard Fast, and Aaron Krammer.
From the guide to the William Golden Camp Wo-Chi-Ca Photographs, circa 1940-1955, (Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive)
