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Boys seated at a dinner table
A group of boys seated at a dinner table. Some have plates of food in front of them.
1950
Boys and young men with basketball trophies
A large group of boys and young men, several holding basketball trophies.
1950
Boys leaving for camp from Marcy Center
Boys boarding open trucks outside the Marcy Center building on their way to camp.
1910
Young children at tables playing with toys
Group of young children playing with puzzles and toy cooking utensils while seated around tables. Two women teachers are standing behind the children.
1950
Young servicemen with Marcy Center Superintendent Anna Heisted and Miss Campbell
Group of fourteen young men, some of whom are Marcy Center staff members, seated with Marcy Center Superintendent Anna Heisted and Miss Campbell before they go off to serve in World War I. A row of trophies is in front of them.
1916
Children performing with Maypole at the Marcy Center
Children and teenager performing around a Maypole with streamers in front of an audience in the playground area at the Marcy Center.
1945
Children from the Marcy Center Nursery School
Group portrait of a class of children at the Marcy Center Nursery School.
1960
Nurse taking the pulse of sick child in a clinic bed
A nurse wearing a face mask takes the pulse of one of two sick children resting in a clinic bed. The other child has an ice bag on their head.
1938
Boys in basement gymnasium
A large group of boys, many with dirty clothes and faces, posing in a basement gymnasium.
1910
Maxwell Street market scene
Street scene in the Maxwell Street area. At left is a male vendor with a food cart. Two women work at a wooden stall at right. A brick tenement building is visible in the background.
1900
Large group of children outside Henry Booth House
Large group of children standing outside Henry Booth House.
1930
Mexican children with a piñata and two men
Large group of Mexican children posing with two men. The man at the right holds a rope attached to a piñata suspended overhead.
1938
Teacher and children in garden
Boy watering plants with a hose, and nursery school class and teacher standing next to the garden. The children are holding up leaf lettuce from the garden.
1941
Children walking with clean-up signs on street
Children walking outside on neighborhood streets carrying shovels, a broom, and clean-up signs.
1949
Children playing in concrete pipe segments in a play area
Children playing in concrete drainage pipe segments in a fenced outdoor play area.
1950
Teenagers playing ping-pong outside a building
Teenagers playing ping-pong outside a building.
1950
Adults and a child wearing traditional ethnic clothing
Six adults and a child standing outside in traditional ethnic clothing.
1920
Teenagers and adults at a dining event
Teenagers and adults eating dinner together at a rectangular table at a dining event.
1950
Children in classroom with blackboard and portrait of Elizabeth Marcy
Large group of children in a classroom with a small blackboard and a portrait of Elizabeth Marcy hanging on the wall. Several of the children are holding their ears as if anticipating a loud noise.
1910
Teenager Rosie Drexler on Maxwell Street
Local neighborhood teenager Rosie Drexler standing on Maxwell Street near a crate of fruit, with the market behind her. Drexler was a Jewish girl who considered Marcy Center her "second home". This photograph was used on the cover of "The Story of Marcy Center" pamphlet, authored by Drexler.
1920
Marcy Center Superintendent Anna Heisted
Marcy Center Superintendent Anna Heisted standing outside a building.
1920
Group of boys in scouting uniforms outside a building
Group of youths standing outside of a building, with some wearing scouting uniforms and holding axes and backpacks.
1920
Ethnic dance performance, International Night
A couple perform an ethnic dance on International Night, with four costumed women standing behind them in a straw-filled cart.
1937
International Night celebration
Man presents a bouquet of flowers to a girl on stage during International Night, as costumed performers look on.
1937
Boys wearing hats and helmets
Group of boys wearing headgear - some wearing leather football helmets - stand next to a street.
1930
Dr. Booth doing an eye examination on a patient
Dr. Booth examining the eyes of an elderly African American man.
1940
Children playing musical instruments
Group of children playing percussion instruments, accompanied by a woman playing piano.
1950
Girl weaving on a loom in handicrafts class
Girl weaving on a loom in a class taught by a WPA handicrafts instructor. Other girls at the table are doing different types of weaving.
1937
Woman performing with drum
African American woman performs on a drum in front of an audience of children and others inside a Quonset hut building.
1960
Children and adults waiting for transportation outside the Marcy Center
Group of children and women dressed up for a trip to Arden Shore, wait for transportation on the sidewalk outside the Marcy Center.
1900
Woman with a boy in an American Indian costume
A woman with a young boy dressed in an American Indian costume on the street in the Maxwell Street neighborhood.
1900
Teacher reading storybook to nursery school class
Female teacher reading a storybook to a nursery school class. A table with snacks is in the foreground and a Christmas tree and children's' furniture are visible in the background.
1953
Nurses with children and babies
A group of nurses holding babies. One nurse stands beside a child on a scale.
1910
Children in Daily Vacation Bible School outside Marcy Center
Large group of children enrolled in Daily Vacation Bible School outside Marcy Center with several adults. A sign for the school is visible, announcing a program of athletics, story hour, sewing, basketry, hammock and toy making, and wood and metal work.
1915
Henry Booth House, 1918 annual report
First two pages of printed annual report for Henry Booth House. Includes photograph of young women wearing nursing uniforms in the Red Cross Surgical Dressing Class. Also includes opening paragraph of the annual report.
1918
Children playing in front of Henry Booth House
Children playing in the street in front of Henry Booth House, located at the intersection of S. Union Avenue and 14th. Sections of sewer pipe are lined up along the street.
1937
Kindergarten boys with hammers and chairs
Two young boys in a kindergarten class standing with hammers beside chairs made from wooden crates.
1931
Children on a pier
Five African American children wearing sashes pose on a pier.
1940
Teenagers dancing at a party
African American teenagers in formal clothing dancing at a party.
1951
Children in uniforms performing in a gym
Children in uniforms performing inside a gymnasium.
1951
Boys in street with wooden scooters
Four African American boys in the street with homemade wooden scooters.
1953
Girls dancing at an event
Group of girls dancing at an event.
1953
Boys in front of Marcy Center
Group of boys standing on a corner next to the three story brick building built in 1896 to house the Marcy Center.
1900
Anna Heisted with children
Anna Heisted and a group of children standing on the sidewalk outside a building.
1920
Nursery Parents Christmas Party
Nine African American women wearing party dresses and Christmas themed name tags at a Nursery Parents Christmas party.
1957
Nurses examining babies in a dispensary
Two seated nurses examine a baby in a dispensary (probably Marcy Center Dispensary). Two women standing behind them also hold babies.
1920
Costumed adults enacting Christmas nativity scene
Five adults in costumes enacting a Christmas nativity scene with the three wise men bearing gifts.
1934
Women in costumes dancing on stage
Four women dressed in costumes with flowers in their hair dancing onstage.
1920
Children and adults dressed in Mexican clothing dancing
Two children and two adults dressed in Mexican traditional clothing dance onstage, accompanied by two musicians playing guitars.
1937
Boys saluting with softball equipment
Ten boys dressed in warm clothes saluting and holding softball equipment.
1937

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