Camp Woodland Photographs, ca. 1938-1958, Undated

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The Camp Woodland photographs subseries documents the activities of the campers, the Folk Festivals of the Catskills, and many of the Catskill indigenes, including Dick and George Edwards, Harry Robinson, Grant Rogers, Ernie Sagan, Harry Siemsen, Orson Slack, and George Van Kleeck. There are a number of photographs of Norman Cazden and Herbert Haufrecht, both of whom served as musical directors for the camp, photographs of Norman Studer, as well as photographs of Pete Seeger playing his banjo. There is a file of photographs of Camp Hilltop as well.

Former camper Joan Simon Faulkner also donated digitized versions of many of her black and white and color photographs from Camp Woodland from 1954, 1960, and 1962 and of the 1958 Folk Festival of the Catskills. Please contact the Department to access these.

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