Guide to the People's Educational Society and Camp Tamiment Records, 1920-1972

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Guide to the People's Educational Society and Camp Tamiment Records, 1920-1972

1920-1972

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_007_003/tam_007_003.html

The People's Educational Camp Society (PECS) owned and operated Camp Tamiment, an educational and recreational summer resort (originally) for socialists and their families near Bushkill, Pa., from 1920 until its sale in 1965 to commercial interests. Camp revenues helped support the Rand School of Social Science and other progressive organizations. Camp Tamiment's success led to the revoking of PECS' tax exempt status in 1963. In 1972 PECS became the Tamiment Institute, thus taking the name of, and becoming identical with its subsidiary, founded in 1935 as the educational arm of Camp Tamiment. This collection contains minutes, correspondence, documents pertaining to PECS' tax status, brochures, programs, announcements and a brief history of the camp and the Tamiment Institute.

4.75 Linear Feet (10 boxes)

eng, Latn

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6331244

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

Related Entities

There are 9 Entities related to this resource.

Camp Tamiment (Pa.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kj1ch8 (corporateBody)

Camp Tamiment, a summer resort for socialists and their families, near Bushkill, Pennsylvania, on Lake Tamiment, in the Pocono Mountains, opened in the summer of 1921. Bordering the grounds of Unity House (the resort run by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, which had opened the previous year), the Camp was the brainchild of Mrs. Bertha Mailly, Executive Secretary of the Rand School of Social Science (a school for workers in New York City that was closely allied with the Socialist P...

People's Educational Camp Society.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn1j8m (corporateBody)

Mailly, Bertha Howell.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60q6wp2 (person)

Mailly, Bertha Howell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hd7z2r (person)

People's Educational Camp Society.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66n16zn (corporateBody)

The People's Educational Camp Society (PECS), incorporated in New York in 1920, owned and operated Camp Tamiment, an educational and recreational summer resort (originally) for socialists and their families near Bushkill, Pa., until its sale in 1965 to commercial interests. As envisioned by its founders, members of the American Socialist Society, the Rand School's governing body, Camp Tamiment revenues helped support the Rand School and other progressive organizations, and provided the majority ...

Mailly, Bertha Howell.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q97bnr (person)

Rand School of Social Science

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6032ndv (corporateBody)

The Rand School of Social Science, a school for workers and socialists, was estalished in 1906 with funds from the will of Mrs. Carrie Rand under the leadership of George D. Herron. Until its closing in 1956, the Rand School offered a variety of courses on contemporary topics, traditional subjects and socialist theory taught by intellectual leaders of the socialist movement, distinguished academicians and trade union leaders. In a climate of anti-radical feeling after World War I, the Rand Schoo...

Vladeck, Stephen C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66g1qq0 (person)

Josephson, Ben, 1895-1980.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63x97zx (person)

Ben Josephson (1895-1980), served in various administrative capacities at Camp Tamiment in Pennsylvania from 1941-1968. He was active in the Socialist Party and the labor movement. He was associated with the Rand School and was instrumental in the establishment of the Tamiment Library at NYU. Josephson gave support to the New Leader and Labor History and was elected, in 1976, President of the People's Educational Camp Society (PECS), the corporate entity that founded and oversaw Camp Tamiment. ...