Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Pony riding, Camp Emlen, Norwood, Montg. Co., Pa. Conducted by Wissahickon Boys Club, Germantown, Phila. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Artvue Post Card Co., 225 Fifth Ave
Date [ca. 1936]
Physical Description 1 photomechanical print : photolithograph ; sheet 9 x 15 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in.) (postcard format)
Description Depicts four African American boys riding on ponies near tents set up at Camp Emlen in Morwood, Pa. The four boys sit on the ponies in a line and face the viewer. Six tents are set up in the right. The Wissahickon Boys' Club opened in 1896. It was the first boys's club to serve the African American community. In 1906, the Philadelphia clubs joined with forty-nine other organizations to form the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. John T. Emlen, the long-time president of the Wissahickon Boys' Club, donated twenty-seven acres in Morwood, Montgomery County, Pa., as a summer camp.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
The title should be Morwood but is mistakenly printed as Norwood.
Sheet number: 138B21.
Divided back. Stamped August 14, 1936.
Gift of George M. Brightbill, 1999.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject African American boys -- Pennsylvania -- Morwood.
Ponies.
Riding -- Pennsylvania -- Morwood.
Summer camps -- Pennsylvania -- Morwood.
Tents -- Pennsylvania -- Morwood.
Geographic subject Morwood (Pa.)
Genre Photomechanical prints -- 1930-1940.
Postcards -- 1930-1940.
Printer Artvue Post Card Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department | Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]
Accession number Brightbill 138
138-b21-c