1942 to 1953

Collection contains [Bos--home movies] of family at home in Albany, New York, and Castine, Maine. Children’s winter activities include sledding and snowman building. Other outdoor scenes of children show sandbox play, swinging, nursery school groups, pets, swimming, picnics, boating, riding bikes, and archery. Indoor scenes include reading, tea parties, Halloween costume dress-up, and Christmas gift-giving. Adults are seen performing domestic chores, dancing, boating, and swimming. One scene was taken at a strawberry festival on the coast of Maine and another at a garden party at the Booth residence in Castine, Maine.

Frances Bos, one of the girls depicted in these home movies, lives in Castine, Maine.