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| Title | Cub Scout Pack 72 meeting, Seattle, 1948 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1948 |
| Caption | The Seattle Boy Scout Council was one of the first in the nation to organize Cub Scout programs. By the mid-1920s, organized dens of six to eight boys between the ages of nine and eleven met regularly for various Cub Scouting activities.
This October 1948 photo shows Den Mother Juanita Adkinson and the members of her Cub Scout den in the Pack 72 meeting room, probably in Seattle's Queen Anne district. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Boy Scouts - Seattle, with Mrs. B.H. Adkinson, Herbert Adkinson, Alan Worthington, Frederick Langford, Ronald Lampken, Billy McLay, Stephen Hullin, Jack Frederick, John Davidson.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 28, 1948. |
| Subjects | Children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Uniforms--Washington(State)--Seattle; Boy Scouts of America |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Queen Anne (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI21199 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
