Disease makes ghost town of boy scout camp. Presidential order delaying the Boy Scout Jamboree for a year because of infantile paralysis in Virginia made a ghost town of the city of tents before the camp came properly to life. Nearly $300,000 was spent on construction of the camp. The Jamboree is ex
- Date
- 1935-08-09
- Photographer / author
- Harris Eweing
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 1,024 × 793 pixels
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"Disease makes ghost town of boy scout camp. Presidential order delaying the Boy Scout Jamboree for a year because of infantile paralysis in Virginia made a ghost town of the city of tents before the camp came properly to life. Nearly $300,000 was spent on construction of the camp. The Jamboree is ex" (1935-08-09). Harris Eweing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3Presidential_order_delaying_the_Boy_Scout_Jamboree_for_a_year_because_of_infantile_paralysis_9186v.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 270394.
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