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Marguerite Butler and Olive Dame Campbell with book

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  • This photograph, taken by Doris Ulmann in 1933 or 1934, depicts Marguerite Butler (left) and Olive Dame Campbell (right) looking over a book. Butler and Campbell co-founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1925. Campbell was director of the school until her retirement in 1946 and Butler served as the school's treasurer and assistant director. Butler later became Marguerite Bidstrup, marrying the school's Danish farm manager, Georg Bidstrup in 1936.