Title:

Clyde A. Wilson journals: Berkeley, California, 1935-1936

Troop forty recorder

Creator/Contributor:

Wilson, Clyde A., 1919-2004, creator, author.

Contains two journals kept by a Berkeley, California teenager mostly documenting his activities and trips taken as a member of Troop 40 of the Boy Scouts of America. The first journal covers a cross-country trip by train to Philadelphia, New York City, Niagara Falls, Canada, Glacier National Park and home from August 14-September 1, 1935. The trip took place at the same time as the first American Boy Scout Jamboree was being held in Washington, D.C. but a polio scare resulted in the event being cancelled on short notice, possibly resulting in a change of plans by the Berkeley troop. They rendezvoused with other scout troops in Philadelphia who went on to Washington before the Berkeley troop moved on to New York. Dated entries describe his sights and experiences along the way and scouting activities. The second journal (July, 1936) covers his activities as the scoutmaster at Camp Wolfboro (now Camp Wolfeboro) located near Arnold, California and attendance at a regional Jamboree in Sacramento, California. Dated entries contain details of the various activities the troop has engaged in each day and includes some mounted items such as a printed camp brochure, a "kp" duties assignment list, and several photographic postcards of troop members and scenic shots of the camp. Laid in materials from the journals have been foldered separately and include a "Jamboree equipment list", a typescript of a skit titled, "The Estabrook Nieces," and two mimeograph copies of a semi-monthly newsletter for Troop 40, Berkeley, California titled, Troop Forty Recorder (Volume XI, No. 1, September 4, 1936).

Date:

1935 (issued)

Subject:

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Railroad travel -- United States

Voyages en train -- États-Unis

Railroad travel

Travel

United States -- Description and travel

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel

Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel

Glacier National Park (Mont.) -- Description and travel

Camp Wolfeboro (Calif.)

Camp Wolfeboro (Calif.) -- Pictorial works

États-Unis -- Descriptions et voyages

New York (N.Y.) -- Descriptions et voyages

Niagara, Chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.) -- Descriptions et voyages

Glacier National Park (Mont.) -- Descriptions et voyages

California -- Berkeley

Montana -- Glacier National Park

New York (State) -- New York

North America -- Niagara Falls

United States

Boy Scouts of America -- California -- Berkeley

Boy Scouts of America -- California -- Berkeley -- Pictorial works

Boy Scouts of America.

National Scout Jamboree.

National Scout Jamboree.

Wilson, Clyde A -- 1919-2004 -- Diaries

Purchase ; Marc Selvaggio ; 20150923.

Photograph album transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2016.048).

Clyde Garl A. Wilson (May 19,1919-October 15, 2004) was a Berkeley, California resident throughout his youth residing with his family at 493 Boynton Avenue. He served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II and is buried at San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery in Gustine, California.

The first American Boy Scout Jamboree Silver Jubilee, scheduled to be held in Washington, DC, in August of 1935, was cancelled on short notice due to a polio scare and eventually held in 1937.

Camp Wolfeboro, located in Calaveras County, California, was established as a summer camp by the Berkeley Area Boy Scout Council in 1928. It was originally named Camp Wolfboro and renamed in the 1940's.

Preferred citation: Clyde A. Wilson journals : Berkeley, California, 1935-1936, BANC MSS 2015/207, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

In English.

Type:

Diaries.

Pictorial works.

Photographs.

Diaries.

print

0.2 (1

English

Origin:

California