Summer looking like it might be coming in and time traveling the old camp brochures. Pictures from a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005) many of them of  Camp Pukwana on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927 ish. From an album up for sale by rare book dealer James Arsenault.

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Group of campers at railroad station in Richville, Maine all wearing their middy tops with two of the older girls wearing their camp hats tilted to the side like the very popular cloche hats. They were probably campers at Camp Pukwana which is on Sebago Lake as is Richville so the closest train station. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography

‘Peggy’ Walton instructing swimming. Probably photographed at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Cast of ‘The Wonder Hat’ – Grace Lorraine, Huldah Williams, Mary Leigh Seaton, and Gene Edmundson. Camp play, probably at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Mary Leigh Seaton and Huldah Williams. From the same camp play as they are wearing the same costumes as Harlequin and (probably) Columbine with the white pajama and dark pom poms. Photograph, probably taken at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Dance in the Historic Play – Camp Pukwana – 1921. Sebago Lake, Maine. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography
Hiking or on a walking trip and wearing middy tops and what were called gym skirts (what we would call culottes). They were probably campers at Camp Pukwana which was on Sebago Lake in Maine. 1921-1927. American. From a photo album kept by  Jane Erskine Williams (1908–2005). Image © 2026 James E. Arsenault & Company. Fair use license. https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/8050/jane-erskine-williams-photog-and-compiler/a-young-woman-s-photo-album-compiled-between-1917-and-1927-with-aviation-and-aerial-photography

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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