Higley Hill Camp Photographs
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Higley Hill Camp, a left-wing summer camp for children in Wilmington, Vermont, was owned and operated by Max and Grace Granich, who had been active in the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in the years before opening the camp. This collection contains black and white photographs and negatives, slides, brochures, and holiday greeting cards from the Camp, during the late 1940s to the late 1960s,that show children and adults engaged in activities at Higley Hill Camp as well as group shots and portraits of campers and staff. Also documented is a fire that took place at the camp in 1948.
Historical/Biographical Note
Higley Hill Camp, a left-wing summer camp for children in Wilmington, Vermont, was owned and operated by Max and Grace Granich. Max Granich joined the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in the late 1920s; he also served as chauffeur and bodyguard for Earl Browder, General Secretary of the CPUSA, and as Managing Editor of China Today. Grace Granich was a key administrative figure in the national office of the CPUSA from 1930 to 1945, serving as secretary to Browder and as a member of its Organization Department. Following the postwar expulsion of Browder from the CPUSA, the Graniches distanced themselves from the Communist Party and in 1946 opened Higley Hill Camp, which they ran until 1964.
Paula Lieber Gerson and Linda Lieber Levy are sisters and former Higley Hill campers. Gerson is a professor of Art History. Gerson and Levy and their husbands, Bill and Alex, managed Higley Hill for a number of years after the Graniches retired until the Graniches sold the camp. After Higley Hill was sold, the Levys opened their own summer camp, Apple Hill, which many former Higley Hill campers attended.
Arrangement
The Higley Hill Camp Photographs Collection is arranged into two series by format:
Series I - Photographs, Negatives, and Ephmera.
Series II - 70mm Slides.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains black and white photographs and negatives, slides, brochures, and holiday greeting cards from the Higley Hill Camp, from the late 1940s and late 1960s, with the bulk of the materials from 1957-1966. These images show children and adults engaged in activities at the camp, as well as group shots and portraits of campers and staff; they also document a fire that took place at the camp in 1948.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in 1940-1997, are expected to enter the public domain in 2118.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials were separated from The Higley Hill Hill Camp Records (TAM 447). The images in this collection were part of a larger donation of materials by Linda Lieber Levy and Paula Lieber Gerson in 2009. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 2012.067 and NPA.2009.011.
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Processing Information
Photographs and negatives were placed into acid-free folders. Loose slides were placed into acid-free negative sleeves and grouped with other sets of slides that remained in their original boxes. All of the items are stored in acid-free boxes.