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Pioneer in the private camping movement, founder and director of Al-Gon-Quian Boys Camp on Burt Lake in Cheboygan County, Michigan, and officer in the American Camping Association. Correspondence, articles, speeches and photographs; also Camp Al-Gon-Quian materials, including program files, reports, roster files, and published yearly programs; materials of King family, missionaries in China; and plans of Twining home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, originally designed by Albert Kahn and his associate Malcolm for Louis A. Strauss.

The papers of Herbert Twining, except for an earlier family letter from 1888, date from the 1920s to 1980. The collection is broken down into a series of personal and family materials, a series on Camp Al-Gon-Quian, 1931-1967, and photographs.

Residents of North Branch and Carleton, Mich. Includes copy prints of a hearse and street sprinkler driven by Lloyd Turner, a photo of Lydia Turner at a telephone switchboard, a photo of Maxine Turner, and biographical sketches.

The collection includes copy prints of a hearse and street sprinkler driven by Lloyd Turner, a photo of Lydia Turner at a telephone switchboard, and a photo of Maxine Turner. Also includes biographical sketches.