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Fresh Air Fund - Friendly Town

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Title

Fresh Air Fund - Friendly Town

Subject

Environmentalism

Description

Founded in 1877, the Fresh Air Fund organization served as a non-profit outreach program for low-income, urban youths to gain access to country living. This button addresses the Friendly Town program, which enabled some families residing in small towns to host inner-city children from New York City in their homes.

Creator

The Fresh Air Fund

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

undated

Format

Button

Type

Physical Object

Collection

Tags

Citation

The Fresh Air Fund, “Fresh Air Fund - Friendly Town ,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed April 2, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/253.

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