Maine Jewish Camps and Kosher Hotels from Greater Waterville

Adverts

Camp Arcadia Advertisement 5/15/1914 (Oakland)
Cedar Crest Camp for Boys Advertisement 6/1/1917 (Oakland)

Antisemitism In Hotels

Amy Eklund, "Jews in Vacationland", paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011

Banquet

Camp Lown Closing Banquet - program 22 Aug 1957 (Oakland)

Baseball

Camp Lown : four boys on playing field date not known (Oakland)

Basketball

Camp Lown : boys playing basketball date not known (Oakland)

Boating

Boating at Camp Lown: M Kapiloff, R Jacobson, M Ross date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : three campers in a boat date not known (Oakland)
Boat regatta, Camp Lown c. 1957 (Oakland)

Boxing

Camp Lown : learning boxing date not known (Oakland)

Brochures

Camp Lown : Brochure 1 1950s (Oakland)
Camp Lown : Brochure 2 1950s (Oakland)
Camp Lown : Brochure 3 1950s (Oakland)

Buildings

Camp Lown 1950C 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lakeridge Lodge circa 1955 (Waterville)

Bulletins

The Chronicle, Cedar Crest Camp 1924 (Oakland)
The Chronicle, Cedar Crest Camp 1925 (Oakland)
The Chronicle, Cedar Crest Camp 1927 (Oakland)
The Chronicle, Cedar Crest Camp 1931 (Oakland)
The Chronicle, Cedar Crest Camp 1932 (Oakland)
The Chronicle, Cedar Crest Camp 1934 (Oakland)
The Chronicle, Cedar Crest Camp 1935 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Kadima bulletin- farewell issue no 2 1946 (Oakland)
Camp Lown : Kadima August 1955 23 Aug 1955 (Waterville)
Camp Lown : Kadima August 1957 25 Aug 1957 (Waterville)
Camp Lown : Kadima July 1957 July 1957 (Waterville )
Camp Lown : Kadima August 1958 24 Aug 1958 (Waterville)
Camp Lown : Kadima July 1958 July 1958 (Waterville )
Camp Lown : Kadima August 1959 23 Aug 1959 (Waterville)
Camp Lown : Kadima 1960 - end of season edition 1960 (Waterville)
Camp Lown : Kadima - 1961 beginning of session edition 1961 (Waterville)

Bunk / Group Of Campers

Camp Lown : Group Photo Outdoors date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : a group of girls with a counselor date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : four boys in a line date not known
Camp Lown : Two girls on stairs date not known
Camp Lown entire camp date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown group photo date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown group photo bunk 1 date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown Group Photo, 7 girls date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown group of girls circa 1946 (Oakland)
Camp Lown group of girls circa 1946
Eight Boys, Camp Lown circa 1948 (Oakland)
Eight Girls at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Oakland)
Girl's Group at Camp Lown, Summer 1948 1948 (Oakland)
Six Girls at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Waterville)
Ten Boys at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Waterville)
Camp Lown camp photo 1949 circa 1949 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950 Bunk 12 and 13 1950 (Oakland)
Group Photograph - Camp Lown 1950 circa (Oakland)
Camp Lown - Bunk 10 Group Photo of Girls 1951 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Group Picture 1951 (Oakland)
Camp Lown, Boys Bunk 4 1952 circa (Oakland)
Camp Lown Girls Bunk 9 circa 1955 (Oakland)
Camp Lown girls group circa 1955 (Oakland)
Camp Lown girls group III circa 1955 (Oakland)
Camp Lown, Boys Bunk 1955 circa (Oakland)
Camp Lown camp photo 1956 circa 1956 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Group Photo 1956 (Oakland)
Camp Lown camp photo 1957 circa 1957 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Girls late 1950s (Oakland)
Camp Lown Group Photo on large rock 1957 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Counselors 1958 1958 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Long Johns 1958 1958 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Counselors 1959 1959 (Oakland)
Camp Lown camp photo 1961 circa 1961 (Oakland)
Camp Lown - Group bunk photograph 1965 (Oakland)
Camp Manitou - group photos of campers and counselors I 1969 (Oakland)
Camp Manitou - group photos of campers and counselors II 1969 (Oakland)
Camp Manitou dining hall 1969 (Oakland)

Camp Directors

Annual message from "Aunt Sue and Uncle Henry", directors of Camp Manitou 1969 (Oakland)

Camp Reunions

First Camp Lown Reunion with 1946 campers April 20, 1947
First Camp Lown Reunion, 1947 for campers of the 1946 session 20 April 1947 (Waterville)

Counselors

Camp Lown : counselor II date not known
Counselors in training, Camp Lown 1958 (Oakland)
Counselors, campers, Camp Lown c. 1959 (Oakland)
Junior counselors, Camp Lown c. 1960 (Oakland)

Dancing

Camp Lown - Dancing 1965 (Oakland)

Exteriors

Camp Lown - Entrance 1965 (Oakland)

Fiction

Mindy Schneider, Not A Happy Camper, Grove Press, 2007, New York 2007 (Oakland)

Flag Ceremonies

Camp Lown : raising the flag date not known (Oakland)

Food

Camp Lown : Group Photo in Dining Hall date not known (Oakland)

Games

Camp Lown 1950 Boomie Katz, Howie, unknown 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950A 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950B 1950 (Oakland)

General Scenes

Camp Lown 1950D 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950G 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950K 1950 (Oakland)

Histories

Tenth Anniversay article on Camp Lown in the Jewish Advocate 7/7/1955 (Oakland)

Lake Scenes

Camp Lown 1950F 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950H 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950J 1950 (Oakland)

Leadership

Camp Lown 1950 Counselors - I 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950 Counselors II 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown : Abe Sachar and Four Men 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown articles in the Jewish Advocate 1955 / 1957 (Oakland)

Letters

Letter to All Life Members of Camp Lown Association and All Parents of 1966 Campers 28 Oct 1966 (Oakland)

Memorabilia

Camp Lakeridge Manor : Mascot Teddy Bear circa 1956 (Waterville)

Music

Camp Lown Songster - cover page date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown Songster cover, Oakland, ca. 1957 c. 1957 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Israel Songsheet 1961 (Waterville)
Camp Lown Songster for 1984 Reunion in Burlington, MA (extracts) 1984 (Oakland)
American Team Songsheet 1911-1987
Camp Lown Songster 07/04/11 (Oakland)

Newsletter

Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol III No 3 part 1 Aug-48
Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol III No 3 part 2 Aug-48
Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol III No 4 Jul-48
Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol IV No 2 Aug-49
Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol IV No 3 Aug-49
Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol V No 1 Jul-50

Newsletters

Camp Lown newsletter August 14 1952 (Oakland)

Newspaper

Camp Lown : distributing a camp newspaper date not known (Oakland)

Not Yet Classifed

Janice Berman & Others at Birch Crest Summer Camp 1933/1934 (Oakland)
Mickey and Phil Wiener at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Waterville)
Sandy Shay and Mickey Wiener at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Waterville)
Bob Saltz at Camp Lown 1955 (Oakland)
Levine Family Cousins (Waterville) at the Levine Camp, Sidney, ME circa 1972 (Waterville)
Jewish summer camps 07/04/11 (Oakland)
Charlotte Wiesenberg “The New Promised Land: Maine's Summer Camps for Jewish Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century” Spring 2013 (Waterville)

Not Yet Classified

4 candid Camp Lown snapshots date not known
Candid Camp Lown snapshots V date not known
Cedar Crest Camp 1917 (Oakland)
Mickey Wiener at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Oakland)
Three Girls at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Waterville)
Two Boys at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Waterville)
Camp Lown 1950E 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950J 1950 (Oakland)
Camp Lown 1950L 1950 (Oakland)
Daryl Cooper at Camp Lown 1950 (Oakland)
Marty at Camp Lown 1950 (Oakland)
Linda (Elowitch) Abromson and Ruth Singer at Camp Lown 1951 circa (Oakland)
Candid Camp Lown snapshots IV circa 1955
Candid Camp Lown snapshots I circa 1958
Candid Camp Lown snapshots III circa 1958
Candid Camp Lown snapshots II circa 1959
Camp Manitou from the air II 1969 (Oakland)
Camp Manitou from the air 1975 (Oakland )

Not Yet Classified

Camp Lown : a camper date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : a counselor at bat date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : a female counselor date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : a male camper date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : A male counselor with sunglasses date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : an official photographer shooting five counselors date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : boxing match I date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : counselor I date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : four girls having fun date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : large group of campers outside bunk date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : one counselor at bat date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : one girl on the sports field date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : one slightly unhappy young camper date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : one women camper date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : single girl beside bunk date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : single happy boy I date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : single happy boy II date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : Single unhappy little boy date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : three guys standing on each other date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : two girl campers date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : two girls having fun date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : two young women campers date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : young boys with counselor date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : young campers in uniforms date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown ; Five male counselors date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown entire camp II date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown friends date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : 8 counselors date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : a male camper with two male counselors date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown - girls bunk 1946 (Oakland)
Camp Lown entire camp photo circa 1947 (Oakland)
Barbara Troubh as a Child 1949
Camp Lown 10th Anniversary photo circa 1955 (Oakland)
Camp Lown girls group I circa 1955 (Oakland)
Camp Lown girls group II circa 1955 (Oakland)
Camp Lown girls group IV circa 1955 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Alumni facebook site 2016

Not Yet Classified

Leisure and Recreation 06/13/11 (Waterville)

On Philip Lown

Letter to All Life Members of Camp Lown Association and All Parents of 1966 Campers 28 Oct 1966 (Oakland)

Patches

Camp Lown Patches date not known (Oakland)

Photography

Camp Lown : two girls with cameras date not known (Oakland)

Plays

Performance, Camp Lown c. 1957 (Oakland)
Playbill: Camp Lown CIT Show, Carousel 1961

Prayer Books

Camp Lown prayer book, Oakland, 1955 06/26/55 (Oakland)

Publications

Camp Lakeridge Yearbook Covers circa 1956 (Waterville)

Rehearsal

Camp Lown : rehearsal for a play I date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : rehearsal for a play II date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : rehearsel I date not known (Oakland)
Camp Lown : rehearsal II date not known (Oakland)

Religion

Camp Modin Boys and Counselor with Kipot 1939 (Waterville)
Friday night services at Camp Lown, Oakland, 1947 1947 (Oakland)

Reunion

Camp Lown : First reunion 4/20/1947 (Oakland)
Camp Lown Reunion 1984 (Waterville)

Shabbat

Camp Lown : Sabbath in the Rec Hall date not known (Oakland)

Shabbat Services

Shabbat Service, Camp Lown, Oakland 1947 (Oakland)

Songs

Kadima Reunion Songs August 1984

Sports

Camp Lown - Archery 1965 (Oakland)
Camp Lown - Golf 1965 (Oakland)

Sports Field

Camp Lown : two boys on the sports field date not known (Oakland)

Study

Boy with Lots of Books at Camp Lown circa 1948 (Waterville)

Summer Camp

Camp Lown Boys bunk date not known
Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol III No 2 Aug-48
Camp Lown Kadima Newsletter Vol I Jul-49
Camp Lown girls bunk c1961

Summer Hotels

Harris Gleckman “Summit Springs: The Poland Springs alternative summer resort for the German Jewish elite of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington” 06/08/11 (Waterville)

Swimming And Fishing

"The Swimming and Fishing is Fine at Camp Lown, Oakland, Maine" - post card date not known (Oakland)

Tennis

Camp Lown tennis court 1950 (Oakland)

Theater

Lakeridge ManorTheatre Production circa 1955 (Waterville)

Waterfront

Camp Lown - Water front 1965 (Oakland)

Waterskiing

Waterskiing, Camp Lown c. 1960 (Oakland)

Zionism

Building a Kibbutz at Camp Lown, M Wiener, M Cohen, G Shapiro circa 1948 (Waterville)
Camp Lown visited by former Israeli general summer 1957 (Oakland)

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