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Everybody's happy except Marie. Musta been somethin' she e't

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Pictured are Declora James, Zudora Blakey, Mary E. Wood ("Woody," the Camp's Director), Marie Anderson, a camp counselor (later Marie L. Greenwood), Ruby Hawkins, Ethel Wood, Marie Yarbra, and Eleanor Hawkins ("Hawky, " a camp counselor) African American females from Camp Nizhoni in Lincoln Hills (Gilpin County), Colorado. They stand and sit in the South Boulder Creek while wearing swim suits and swim caps; some hold large sticks.
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  1. African Americans
  2. Blakey, Zudora
  3. Camp Counselors
  4. Camp Nizhoni (Colo.)
  5. Camps
  6. Colorado
  7. Greenwood, Marie L
  8. Hawkins, Eleanor
  9. Hawkins, Ruby
  10. James, Declora
  11. Lincoln Hills
  12. Lincoln Hills (Colo.)
  13. People
  14. South Boulder Creek (Colo.)
  15. Streams
  16. Women
  17. Wood, Ethel
  18. Wood, Mary E
  19. Yarbra, Marie
  20. Young Women's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.). Phyllis Wheatley Branch

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