Scrapbook

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Barbara Gabowitz Scrapbook

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Scrapbook, 1955-1958 of Barbara (Bobbi) Gabowitz, a teenager from Highland Parks, New Jersey documenting her time spent in a Jewish summer camp, Camp Tel-Hai in Jamison, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Scrapbook includes letters, photographs, admission tickets, newsletters and handmade cards as well as many comments made on those items by Bobbi Gabowitz, who titled the first page "This book contains memoirs of my summer romances at Camp Tel-Hai." Also included is a 1953 photograph showing her parents on a cruise and an undated group photograph of Camp Tel-Hai.

The following excerpts of names mentioned in the scrapbook was provided by the seller:

"Axelrod, Cohen, Lazar, Pearlman, Gabowitz, Sukoneck, Miller, Freedman, Turner, Spatz, Press, Goldstein, Grossman, Leorne, Feister, Levine, Shubin, Brandoff, Rothstein, Lewis, Torchon, Finestone, Daiell, Lief, Babad, Nathanson, Muchnick, Schoenberg, Koslow, Weinberg, Syrkus, Krant, Davidson, Abramson, Weisblatt."

Dates

Creation: 1955-1958

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