| | 1 | Title: | [Boy near the water], G[erman]t[ow]n Boys' Club, Stone Harbor Camp [NJ] | | | | Creator: | Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948 | | | | Notes: | Film negative showing a boy from the Germantown Boys' Club standing at the edge of the water at Stone Harbor. He wears a hat with a floppy brim and suspenders. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph: film negative; 1.5 x 2.5 in. | | | | Subjects: | Germantown Boys' Club (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.) People | Bays (Bodies of water) New Jersey | Children | Fashion | Portraits | Stone Harbor (N.J.) | Film negatives | Philadelphia artists
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