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Print, Photographic

1930

Three Boys at the Corn Thinning Camp in Luverne. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 3". Description: black and white photograph of three boys at the Corn Thinning Camp at Luverne, Minn., in 1930; shown are picnic tables, many trees, two or three tents, clothes hanging on a clothesline, a sign "Corn Variety Test, University of Minnesota, County Farm Bureau Cooperating"; identified boys standing beside the tents are Roy Myers, Andrew Downie, and Howard Ruliffson.

The young men in these portraits are all members of the Waseca County Boy Scouts Troop 85 or other, and all achieved Eagle Scout status, which made them Aquilla Club members. Aquilla Club members reunited every December 26 for a banquet.