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8x10 b/w photograph of Beard in uniform and taken at the Dan Beard Camp located north of Hawley, Pennsylvania, on Lake Teedysukung. Photo is in very nice shape. Several small remnants of scrapbook paper attached to reverse. Several pencil printing annotations are also on the reverse. Presented to one of that year's campers, Courtland Brown. Beard built his camp on the site of his hunting lodge, which was erected in 1883. He operated the camp from the early 1920s until 1939. Camp activities and awards were based on those in Beard's Handbook for the Sons of Daniel Boone. Campers could alos earn Scouting rank and merit badges as the campers also formed Pike County, Pennsylvania BSA Troop #1