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Description
Youths at the Sidney Lanier Camp in Eliot acted out Bible dramas on Sundays. Sidney Lanier Jr. (1870-1918) wrote the scripts and music to accompany the action. The camp operated from 1908 to about 1940 featured a strict program of crafts, nature study, music, and other activities intended to teach children "the art of living."
About This Item
- Title: Lanier Camp Bible Drama, ca. 1910
- Creator: Sidney Lanier Camp
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Eliot, York County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 14.9 cm x 10.1 cm
- Local Code: Col. 1018, Ser. 1, Box. 2, Env. 2
- Collection: Lanier Camp (Eliot, Me.) papers
- Object Type: Image
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- Acting
- Arts and children
- Camps--Maine--Eliot
- Children's plays
- Religious drama
- Sidney Lanier Camp (Eliot, Me.)--Photographs
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- Eliot, Me.
- Organized campingSidney Lanier Camp (Eliot, Me.)
- Sidney Lanier Camp
- Sidney Lanier Jr.
- Summer camps
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