Life, 1921-06-30 · page 8 of 41
Life — June 30, 1921 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **donor list for Life's Fresh Air Fund**, a charitable initiative providing relief for poor children in urban areas. The fund had been operating since 1895 and raised money to send underprivileged kids to the countryside for health and recuperation. The photograph at top shows children at "Life's Fresh Air Farm" - apparently a recreational or recuperative facility. The extensive list below documents individual and organizational contributors with donation amounts (typically $10.00). This is **not political satire** but rather evidence of *Life* magazine's civic engagement in Progressive Era philanthropy. The Fresh Air Fund was a genuine charitable program addressing urban poverty and child welfare - concerns typical of early 20th-century American reformism. The page functions as public acknowledgment of donors' generosity.
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AT LIFE'S FRESH AIR FARM A BASE HIT? LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund Live's Fees Are Fuxp has been in operation for the past thirty-four years. In that time it has expended $191,130.33 and has given a fort- night in the country to 41,805 poor city children. Contributions, which are acknowledged in Lire about three weeks after their receipt, should be made payable to Live's Fens Air Fuxo, and sent to 17 West 31st Street, New York City. Previously acknowledged evn Thomas and Robert Grandin, William Ellery, Brookline, Mass. . CoH, New York . Anon., New York City .. Alice R. Burrage, Boston. . Muriel Maben, Chicago Mabelle M. Bean, San Francisco... Mary Emily Reily, Harrisburg. Pa... H. Vibert, Bound Brook, N. J Mrs. Jacob S. Disston, ‘Jr, German- town, Pa. : .E. Fulton, Waterbury, Conn. Albert M. Banker, Johnstown, Y. In memory of Frances James D, Williams, New York... Philadelphia: Cornwall, Pa Memory of Adele, Mrs Geo. C. Heck, Lawrence, ti. M.S. Anderson, San Francisco ir H. Clapp, Rochester, N. Anonymous, Olean, N. Y W. C. Schade, Meadville. Pa... Brown, Grand Island, Nebr. D, Butterfield. Norfolk, Nebr. Memory of Lieut. Kenneth Pickens Culbert,” Ernestine Pattison, Cincinnati B. S. C., Jamestown, Mass. Joseph B. Sheffield, New Yor Chas. M. ‘Higgins, Brooklyn, N.Y “W. COR..” New York Wm. C. Hunneman, Bosto Mra. Jane D. Birdsell, South Bend, “In Memory of Nathalie B.C New York ... Thomas Stokes, Philadelphia . Kirk Lunsford, Roanoke, Va Rev. and Mrs. Eliot "White, York . Marion Stearns, Atlanta. Gretchen Rose,” Pittsburgh Frank Smoyer, Pawling, N.Y. James Norris, Chicago In Memory of F. W, J. and Washington, D. C Pascal E. Hatch, Sy Mrs. Grace W. Me. .... John H. Drummond, Cleveland . L. BC. Bovina, Miss Ino. 0. Leiter, Terre Haute, Ind 1. H. Zacharias, Detroit .- ge R. Parker, Lexington, Ky... Jessica Baylis, Huntington, N. ¥ Mrs. C. Wm, Funk, Germantown, Pa. T. S. Sullivant, Philadelphia . Mrs. Louise M. Remington, Boston. Bloomer Bros. Co., Newark, N.Y. Dr. Ergo A, Majors, Oakland, Cal Elizabeth W. Silskie, Salem, Mass... rs. Bruce Anderson, Lansing, Micb. A. W., Buffalo. N.Y. . Alan B, Moody, Hartiand, Wis. Mrs. Arthur R. Kimball, Waterbury. Conn, sc 3, S$" 5 IM, New York Joseph R. Dilworth, Jobn Dean Cooper, Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. R. E, Treman, Ithaca, N. Y.... Mrs. Herbert Etheridge, Norfolk, Va. Josephine N. Churchill, Burlington, Flora A. Morrow, Holyoke, Nantucket, Mass. ...... Mrs. H. J. Holt, Portland, Me Thomas Stokes Page. Orange, Henry Prentiss, New York. Anonymous, New York . Ada, Barbara and Wellington Cum: mer, Jacksonville, Fla. J. Schallinger, New York . ‘Mrs. Henry C. Carpenter, Edwin Gould, New York John H, Gutterson, Boston Abby W. Hunt, Boston .... Mrs. I. 'B. Galicher, Sewanee, Tenn. May McPherson, Roland Park, Md.. Laura Lee Elston and Harry &. Ebton, Jr., Santa Barbara, Calif Stick Tea Room, Elmira, In Memory of Mr. and Mrs, Thi M. Gale, Washington, D. C.... Alfred S, Foote, Washington, D. C Geo, M, Hendee, field, Conn Harriet Lewis utber and Marion Lewis Luther, New York .... Two more fortunate children. Wasi ington, Anonymous, Boston, |) Losee_ Brothers, Richfield N.Y, «. Odell, Pitesheid, 3 Hope her Providence, R. L. D., Baltimore, Md. . Mee ACB: Tenney, Lexingte Minnie Ford Cranmer, New York, F. Morton Smith, Boston, Mass. . Agnes H. Morrison, Middletown, H.W. Thayer, M. D., Bl cdsal H. Isom, New ¥ Virginia Rhinehart, Schenectady, N.Y Mrs, Eugene DuBois, New York. Thomas Askin, Jr., Denver, Colo... Philip Hussa,” New York Charles Newman, New York .. jeorge H, Wightman, Brookline, 3 Louis hriver, Union Mills, Mrs, A.W. d’Utassy, Nonquitt, Morley A. Stern, Rochester, Elizabeth Schneider, So, Orange Goshen, N. jodge, Danbury, C K., Brooklyn, N.Y. n Rossiter, Brookline, Ma ° New York ... . Pierrepont, Brooklyn, 3 °K. New York...... Harriette C. Bell, Waverley, G. M, DeWitt, M. D., Scranton, H. M. Bradley Jr, Derby, Richard H. Bateson, New York. Elinor Gunn, New York noes Landon Gurlitz, Brooklyn, Mrs. Allen G. Hoyt Y Henry Spadone, N Norton C., New York . Mrs, S, McLean Louere Louis Morris Starr, New York, Charles A. Prince. “Morsemere, Ethel D, Putnam, Worcester, Elizabeth, Mary and Rosamond, Fitch: Mass. ... Hamiin, Kent, Conn. George M. Longaker, Pottstown. Pa.. From a Subscriber, Newton, Mass N. J. Carfarelli, Union Hill,’N, Mrs, Mary Kingsley Howes, N ton, 3 Maude L. Hunkins, Westerly Emlen Stokes, Moor J. Moliey R. Can . Lloyd, White Plains, : nedeker, Perth Amboy, N. J . Frank Kellogg Smith, New York . L, 2. Bayne, as . West, Point, N. Y.. Wiliam A Nast, New York Marcus Korn, Arkville, N.Y Anne Hoffman, New York. Mrs. Hern L. Stevens, ALF. Aibert E. Helen W. Dodd, Wellesley Hills, Ma Jimmy M. Byrne, Northeast Hart harlotte I. Cha ringtield, Mass Starling W. Childs, New York... Louis P, Baker, Beverly, Mass. A. & M. S., Middletown,’ Ohio A. Friend, New Britain, Cor Mrs, F, W. Tappenbeck, New York Mrs. C, N. 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