Higley Hill Camp Photographs. Bulk, 1940-1969 1940s-1997

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Higley Hill Camp Photographs. Bulk, 1940-1969 1940s-1997

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Higley Hill Camp, a left-wing summer camp for children in Wilmington, Vermont, was owned and operated by Max and Grace Granich, who had been active in the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in the years before opening the camp. This collection contains black and white photographs and negatives, slides, brochures, and holiday greeting cards from the Camp, during the late 1940s to the late 1960s,that show children and adults engaged in activities at Higley Hill Camp as well as group shots and portraits of campers and staff. Also documented is a fire that took place at the camp in 1948.

0.75 linear feet; in 1 manuscript box and 1 negatives box.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331228

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Granich, Max, 1896-1987.

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Grace (b. Maul) Granich (1895-1971) was a key administrative figure in the national office of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) from 1930 to 1945, serving as secretary to CPUSA General Secretary Earl Browder and as a member of the Organization Department. On behalf of the CPUSA and the Communist International (Comintern), she traveled to the Soviet Union in 1930-1931, and in 1935-1937, to Shanghai, China, where she served as a liaison to Chinese radicals, notably Agnes Smedley. She a...

Levy, Linda Lieber

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Granich, Grace, 1895-1971.

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Grace (b. Maul) Granich (1895-1971) was a key administrative figure in the national office of the Communist Party, USA from 1930 to 1945, serving as secretary to CP General Secretary Earl Browder and as a member of the Organization Department. On behalf of the CP and the Communist International (Comintern), she traveled to the Soviet Union in 1930-1931, and in 1935-1937, to Shanghai, China, where she served as a liaison to Chinese radicals, notably Agnes Smedley. She also edited The...

Gerson, Paula Lieber

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Higley Hill Camp (Wilmington, Vt.).

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Camp Higley Hill was a summer camp in Vermont (1946-1964) owned and operated by Max and Grace Granich, the latter having served as the personal secretary to Earl Browder, Communist Party, USA General Secretary from 1930 to 1945. From the guide to the Higley Hill Camp Records, undated, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) Higley Hill Camp, a left-wing summer camp for children in Wilmington, Vermont, was owned and operated by Max and Grace Granich. Max Granich joi...