Scope and Contents The William J. Brewster album (2011-50-0) was given to Rev. William J. Brewster by his Sheltering Arms Congregation in 1933 for his seventy-fifth birthday. The album contains birthday wishes and signatures from campers who attended Camp White and Camp Gould. These were camps run by the Episcopal Church for inner city orphans and located on Bantam Lake. Camp White was for the girls and Camp Gould for the boys. The camps were in operation from as early as 1933 to at least 1940. Included in...

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Territory of South Dakota teacher's territorial certificate, 1883; typed memoirs "The making of a state: a tenderfoot in South Dakota"; a letter from Frederick Budlong regarding Brewster's resignation as rector of St. Michael's Parish, 1935; and a letter from Bradford Anderson regarding Anderson's genealogical connection to William Brewster of the Mayflower, 1942.