Ozone Club Photographs
Scope and Contents
The collection contains various group and individual photos as well as courses played. The collection contains two photograph albums and loose materials in folders and sleeves.
Dates
- Creation: 1900 - 2003
Creator
- Ozone Golf Club (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
The Club was founded by Walter P. Stokes, Walter Smedley, and James G. Biddle as an afternoon of golf once a month with Quaker friends. The success of the group spawned additional social golfing clubs - the Divotee (1921) whose first president was D. Robert Yarnall, then the Niblick Club, first president Benjamin S. Thorp, and a woman's group, the Hit or Miss Club. The groups mingled Hicksite and Orthodox Friends, but membership was largely Hicksite. In the early years, there was a close relationship with the meeting for worship in Atlantic City and the hotels and golf courses located there. Until the 1970s, a requirement was membership in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, but gradually the requirement was loosened to include persons with "friendly connection."
A popular annual event was the match between the Ozone and Divotees Clubs formally began in 1955.
Extent
.71 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Ozone Club, Acc. 2003.003. Donor: Smedley family, 2018.055
Processing Information
Photographs were separated from RG4-055 (Ozone Club Records).
- Title
- Ozone Club Photographs
- Author
- Alison Sielaff
- Date
- February 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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