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Filename: ywca_1950_018
PID: islandora:82_195
Title: Building with stone steps in the forest
Creator: Unknown
Date issued: 1950s
Description: Photograph shows a rectangular building with stone steps, many windows, and doors with full length windows and muntins in them. There are two signs on easels on either side of the steps and the building is in a forested area. It is probably located at the YWCA's Camp Ayun Mapu in Big Basin,... Show morePhotograph shows a rectangular building with stone steps, many windows, and doors with full length windows and muntins in them. There are two signs on easels on either side of the steps and the building is in a forested area. It is probably located at the YWCA's Camp Ayun Mapu in Big Basin, California. Show less
File Format: Image/jpg
Extent: 2.5 x 2.5 in.
Object type: Photographic Prints
Tags: Young Women's Christian Association
Subject, LCSH: Buildings
Camps
Doors & doorways
Forests
Signs (Notices)
Stonework
Windows
Subject, TGM: Young Women's Christian Association
Geographic coverage: Big Basin Redwoods State Park -- California
Collection: YWCA of Silicon Valley Collection
Repository: San Jose State University Library Special Collections & Archives
Relation - is part of: Series III, Box 13, Folder 379
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Location: Series III, Box 13, Folder 379
Note: 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.
Digital reproduction information: Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3