Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Sidney Lanier Camp, Eliot, Maine 1929

Barcode: 58951

Image Number: 58951.0001

Brief Description: Hand colored lithograph of camp life at the Sidney Lanier camp in Eliot, Maine in 1929. Featured on the left hand top corner is a portrait of the young Sidney Lanier, father of the founder of the camp. Lines of poetry are interspersed with buildings, agricultural fields with vignettes on the margins of the map of animals, campfires, camp implements. The purpose of the camp was to teach children the "art of living". The campers would progress through social steps culminating in a spiritual social level. Sidney Lanier, Sr. was a poet, critic and professor who became the poet laureate of the state of Georgia. During the Civil War he fought for the Confederacy. Two graduates from Vassar, Kathleen Bulkley Smythe and Imogene Hurd Steves created the map.

Printmaker: Smythe, Kathleen BulkleySteeves, Imogene Hurd

Date/Date Range Produced: 1929

Language: English

Region Depicted: Eliot, Maine

Map Type: Pictorial maps

Dimensions: Map: 51 x 84.5 cm on sheet: 63.5 x 97 cm

Printing Process: Lithograph

Material Type: Paper

LC Call Number: G191.78 1929 S6

OCLC: 1492385698

Subjects: Camping

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/58951.0001