ywca_1930_006
islandora:82_213
Girls in bathing suits standing in a stream
Unknown
1930s
Photograph shows a group of girls in bathing suits standing in a stream. The area is forested and there are fallen trees spanning the stream in the background. The girls are probably from the YWCA's Camp Ayun Mapu in Big Basin.
Image/jpg
2.25 x 3.5 in.
Photographic Prints
Young Women's Christian Association
Bathing suits Camps Forests Girls Streams Youth
Big Basin Redwoods State Park -- California
YWCA of Silicon Valley Collection (SJSU)
San Jose State University Library Special Collections & Archives
Series III, Box 13, Folder 376
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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.
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
