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Daniel Read Anthony Jr. and Leavenworth Hilltop Camp

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

Includes numerous studio portraits of D.R.A. Jr. at various ages as well as a photo bearing a U.S. Army Signal Corps seal depicting a wall of framed protraits of Chairmen D.R.A. Jr., Ross Collins, J. Bull Snyder, H.E. Barbour [?], and Tilman B. Parks.

Also included are three pictures of two cottages on a bluff. The verso of one reads, "'Hilltop Camp' - now Havens Memorial Park 22nd between Shawnee and Ottawa Sts. Leavenworth. Camp was built by DRA Jr. as a place to spend summers when they came home to escape hot Tucson summers. DRA Jr. was bedfast in this cottage for parts of 3 summers, Died in the camp cottage Aug. 4, 1931."

Repository Details

Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository

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