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[Urban Military Academy boys' summer camp in Yosemite Valley photograph album].
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[Urban Military Academy boys' summer camp in Yosemite Valley photograph album]Abstract:
Photograph album documenting the summer camp activities in Yosemite Valley of the Los Angeles-based boy's school Urban Military
Academy. Images are chiefly group portraits of the boys in uniform in various settings: with camp staff; on horseback before
the Yosemite Lodge; on horseback on the Valley floor; seated before the Academy's bus; against a backdrop of Yosemite Falls;
seat before an outdoor meal among trees; performing on stage; watching a boxing match between fellow pupils; etc. In two images,
some pupils pose in blackface. One print includes caption on back identifying 3 boys: Capt. Collins, Bobby Mann, and Billy
Mann; another print depicts an older boy on horseback with a saddle blanket labeled "Urban M.A.".
Date:
1925 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caBoys' schools -- California -- Los Angeles -- Photographs
Private schools -- California -- Los Angeles
Military education -- California -- Los Angeles
Camps -- California -- Yosemite Valley -- Photographs
Blackface
Écoles privées -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Colonies de vacances -- Californie -- Yosemite, Vallée de -- Photographies
Blackface
Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Photographs
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Photographs
Yosemite, Vallée de (Calif.) -- Photographies
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Photographies
Urban Military Academy (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer(s), compiler unknown.
Pencil annotation on back of one print; otherwise, no descriptive information.
Purchase from Barry Ruderman Antique Maps ; 2021.
Urban Military Academy boys' summer camp in Yosemite Valley photograph album, BANC PIC 2021.038, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
11 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints mounted to album leaves ; prints 12 x 18 cm , album 19 x 31 cm
Language:
English