Historical Object
140 - Joy Camps Military Visitor
| Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In one a man poses in a white military uniform holding his hat, with a lake and distant shoreline in the background. In another the same man poses, in uniform, holding a young child, standing in a grassy area near woods. In the third the same man holds the same child, posing near a lake with distant shoreline in the background. The man is identified as Ernest H. Joy,the brother of the owner of The Joy Camps, Barbara Ellen Joy. A building and Adirondack chair are in the near background, to the left. The child is wearing a hat and holding a flower up to its face. Original caption notes: "In late July Miss Joy's brother, Lt. E.H. Joy of the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy, visited camp with his family on his way from the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst to sea duty in the Pacific. He gave the campers a most interesting and instructive talk on the history and present status of lighter-than-air craft." |
| Image ID: | 109211 |
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| Creation Date: | |
| Creator Name: | Joy Camps |
| City: | Hazelhurst |
| County: | Oneida |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Sue Hackett scrapbooks, photograph album, and papers relating to Joy Camps, Hazelhurst, Wisconsin, 1941-1943, 1949-1951 |
| Genre: | Historical Object |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | M2013-167 |
| Original Dimensions: | 11 x 7 inches |
| Page 140 of the Joy Camps official photo album, which described for parents the "IDEAL" summer camp experience that Joy Camps offered. The full contents of this official photo album, a selection of pages from the Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album, and a selection of pages from the Sue Ann Hackett Scrapbook are all included in the Joy Camps image gallery. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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