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YOUTH LENDS A HAND; A STUDY OF VOLUNTEER WORK CAMPS Reel 1 · Part 2

Description

Documentary: On American Friends Service Committee work camps. Reel 1: Shows youths working in a depressed mining town, Scott's Run, W. Va. Townspeople get food relief, and operate cooperative clothing and food exchanges. Campers work in mining town, Soddy-Daisy, Tenn., and study the Tennessee Valley Authority. Reel 2: Campers from Quaker Work Camp, Circle Pines, Mich., rebuild farmhouse as a cooperative education center, and study cooperative societies in Chicago, Ill., and Michigan. Camp life, meditation, and recreation in Michigan.

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Collection

Harmon Foundation Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films on Community and Family Life, Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Art and Culture of Minority and Ethnic Groups

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Date
1940-01-01
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3:03