Poster Child Highlights
Charity Highlights Index, 1930 - 1970

Camp "Daddy" Allen

Many adults with disabilities who were children in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s point to summer camp as the place where they first met other people with disabilities. Summer camp provided them with a sense of being among peers, belonging to a group who shared a sense of identity. They were also relatively accessible environments. These two postcards are from Camp "Daddy" Allen in Pennsylvania, an Easter Seals sponsored summer camp. The thank yous are a formula, and were probably requirements for campers.

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(See also, Edgar "Daddy" Allen)