In 1925, educator Donald MacJannet opened an American-style summer camp for French and American students on the shores of Lake Annecy in southeastern France, near the Swiss border.
An American Summer Camp in France
Posts Tagged: 1930s
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The New York State Training School for Girls, 1904-1975
The New York State Training School for Girls was established in Hudson, New York in 1904 as a new establishment for the internment of “incorrigible” girls between the ages of 12 and 15.
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Orson Welles, Most Precocious Teen Ever
Orson Welles made his first short film, Hearts of Age when he was just 19 years old.
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Jones Valley High School of Birmingham, 1925-1974
Today Teenage is screening in Birmingham, Alabama at the Sidewalk Film Festival, so we’re celebrating Birmingham teens.
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Brooklyn Poem Prodigy
Brooklyn native Nathalia Crane was just nine years old when she published her first poem in The New York Sun (they thought they were publishing an adult).
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Cherry Queen of Traverse City
Today and tomorrow Teenage is screening at the Traverse City Film Festival, founded by local Traverse City resident Michael Moore (pictured below as a teenager).
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Ilse Bing, Leica Queen
Ilse Bing, known as “The Queen of Leica” was an avant-garde photographer and pioneer of monochrome images, born in 1899 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany.
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“I Was a Nazi and Here’s Why”: The New Yorker on Melita Maschmann’s Memoir
In Teenage, portraits of a four emblematic youth from history are woven into the larger narrative about the emergence of youth culture.
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Moroccan Style, ’30s and ’40s
Collected photographs of young women of Morocco during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Happy Campers
The Center for Jewish History‘s photostream is overflowing with camp pics of teenagers chilling at various summer camps—dancing the hora, shooting arrows, and floating downstream.