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[Boy Scouts cooking over open fire at Camp Ranachqua] – Historic Reproduction

[Boy Scouts cooking over open fire at Camp Ranachqua], c1919. — historic photograph
[Boy Scouts cooking over open fire at Camp Ranachqua], c1919.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Boys in Scout uniforms gather around an open cooking fire at Camp Ranachqua, the setting that gives this print its particular character. The Boy Scouts of America had been organized only a decade earlier, in 1910, and by the time this photograph was made around 1919, summer camps like this one were becoming central to the movement's effort to teach boys woodcraft, self-reliance and teamwork. The print was registered for copyright by the New York photographer W.D. Hassler, whose studio issued many scenes of youth life in that period. Its record also hints at how popular outdoor cooking had become as a symbol of camp life.

Created / publishedc1919.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesJ235980 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 8059. Copyright by W.D. Hassler, New York.
SubjectsBoy Scouts of America--Social life--1910-1920. Outdoor cookery--1910-1920. Campfires--1910-1920. Camps--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,205 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-186157

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