Anniversary Week [Photograph, 1941]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2023.158.1
Description
A black and white photograph that is part of a collection of pictures and postcards taken in the 1920s and 30s at Camp Roosevelt, a Boy Scout camp located outside Eddington, Maine. This picture, however, includes an annotation, which reads, "Anniversary Week, Feb. 10, 1941." In the picture, the interior of a basketball court has been decorated for a scouting event. An American flag and scouting, or troop, flag are mounted on poles on either side of a central table, under a basketball hoop backboard. There are four additional tables, two on either side of the flags. A row of candles in candlesticks, one higher than the rest, are lit on the central table, with three more candles on each additional table. There are two people visible, one behind the central table and one to his right, holding up his right hand. Both appear to be boy scouts or scout leaders in full uniform.