No scouts here. This airview shows a portion of the tent city erected along the banks of the Potomac river where the Boy Scouts were scheduled to hold their Jamboree late this month. It was postponed by President Roosevelt for a year because of infantile Creator(s)
- 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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"No scouts here. This airview shows a portion of the tent city erected along the banks of the Potomac river where the Boy Scouts were scheduled to hold their Jamboree late this month. It was postponed by President Roosevelt for a year because of infantile Creator(s)" (1935-08-09). Harris Eweing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:This_airview_shows_a_portion_of_the_tent_city_erected_along_the_banks_of_the_Potomac_river_39185v.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 297903.
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