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Bohemian Camp & Sonoma Photos, 6 [174414]

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Bohemian Camp & Sonoma Photos, 6   [174414]

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Nice set of 6 4.5x7.5" photos. Bohemian Camp-1891 with 3 women and 1 man on a log. 1891 3 women and 2 men near a podium. William Fraser in front of a redwood. Sonoma-1891 4 men near a log. 3 women and 1 man near a bench. 1891 7 people on a large redwood stump."The tradition of a summer encampment was established six years after the Bohemian Club was formed in 1872. Henry "Harry" Edwards, a stage actor and founding member, announced that he was relocating to New York City to further his career. On June 29, 1878, somewhat fewer than 100 Bohemians gathered in the Redwoods in Marin County near Taylorville (present-day Samuel P. Taylor State Park) for an evening sendoff party in Edwards' honor. Freely flowing liquor and some Japanese lanterns put a glow on the festivities, and club members retired at a late hour to the modest comfort of blankets laid on the dense mat of Redwood needles. This festive gathering was repeated the next year without Edwards, and became the club's yearly encampment. By 1882 the members of the Club camped together at various locations in both Marin and Sonoma County, including the present-day Muir Woods and a redwood grove that once stood near Duncans Mills, several miles down the Russian River from the current location. From 1893 Bohemians rented the current location, and in 1899 purchased it from Melvin Cyrus Meeker who had developed a successful logging operation in the area. Gradually over the next decades, members of the Club purchased land surrounding the original location to the perimeter of the basin in which it resides." from wikipedia

City: Sonoma,
State: California Sonoma California