ywca_1950_015
islandora:82_192
Two teenage girls posing as if chopping logs with axes
Unknown
1950s
Photograph shows two teenage girls posing as if chopping logs with axes. The logs are at their feet. They are in a clearing and the forest is in the background. The location is probably the YWCA's Camp Ayun Mapu in Big Basin, California.
Image/jpg
3.5 x 3.5 in.
Photographic Prints
Young Women's Christian Association
Axes Camps Forests Girls Wood
Big Basin Redwoods State Park -- California
YWCA of Silicon Valley Collection
San Jose State University Library Special Collections & Archives
Series III, Box 13, Folder 379
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The YWCA's Camp Ayun Mapu at Big Basin near Boulder Creek attracted about 150 girls for two week sessions in the summer. From Fran Smith, "Breaking Ground:The Daring Women of the YWCA in the Santa Clara Valley, 1905-2005," (2005), p. 51. Big Basin became a state park in 1902.
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