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Children on the "Elizabeth Monroe Smith" steamship on the Delaware River on the way to "Soupy Island"
- Related Essay
- Soupy Island: Fresh Air and Hot Soup at a Delaware River Playground
- Street Address
- Red Bank, NJ
- Creator Name
- Philadelphia Record
- Date Created
- July 1 1938
- Description
- Group of children aboard a steamship, waving good-bye. Caption: "The good ship Lizzie, which never lacks for passengers, took aboard 180 Children yesterday for frolic on Sanatarium Island, down the Delaware."
- Contributing Institution
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Collection
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Record Photograph Collection (V7: 3197 / 1937-1939 / Sanitarium Association of Philadelphia)
- Tags
- Children (people by age group), Delaware River, Philanthropic organizations, Poverty, Recreation, Sanitarium Association of Philadelphia, Ships, Waterfronts
- Topics
- Health, Landscape & Architecture, Public & Social Life, Social Reform & Philanthropy
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