Camp Snooze vol. 5, 1928.

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Camp Snooze vol. 5, 1928.

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Camp scrapbook, largely composed of weekly "newspapers" documenting visitors, camp activities, plays, poetry, stories, trips to Petoskey for shopping and icecream, and fun, as well as programs of plays and vaudeville night presentations, calendars of events, lists of guests, staff and girl campers and their nicknames, and several pages of song lyrics. Also included are party and dinner favors, a few newspaper clippings documenting the girls attending summer camp from June 28-Aug. 20, 1928, and a Dec. 28 Christmas gathering, and related letters, invitations, and telegrams, Nov.-Dec. 28, 1928. Most of the materials are mimeographed. The materials were in a binder entitled "Camp Snooze vol. 5", but were removed from it for preservation reasons. Mrs. P. B. Sampson was the camp's director. Most of the camp staff were professors from or college juniors or seniors at the universities of Chicago, Michigan, Michigan State, Oberlin College, and LaCrosse Normal School, now the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. One of the clippings notes that in the summer of 1928, 45 girls attended the camp from Lansing, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Highland Park, Ann Arbor, Pleasant Ridge, and Ypsilanti (Mich.), as well as from Fremont and Toledo (Ohio). A number of the stories and art include caricatures of African-Americans and Native Americans.

.25 cubic ft. (1 v. in 1 box) : ill.

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The property for Camp North Woods was purchased in 1923 by Wilbur Bowen and Paul Sampson, who were both professors at the Normal School at Ypsilanti, now Eastern Michigan University (EMU). At the time, EMU wanted to develop a field training area for students interested in pursuing the burgeoning camping and outdoor leisure business, although it did not have the funds to purchase the necessary property. Professor Sampson had been very active in operating boys camps, and Professor Bowen was very i...