Content Description The primary item in this collection is an album of vernacular photographs recording the outdoor leisure activities of an unidentified American family possibly from the Northeastern United States. None of the prints carry any identifying information, but the pictures are organized into discrete series. The most notable of these series with 143 photographs may depict a canoeing, hiking, and fishing expedition to the Canadian North. This series includes numerous images of Native American or...

Content Description A pair of vernacular photograph albums associated with John H. Senior of Philadelphia. Most images depict athletic, leisure, and recreational activities around the Philadelphia with Senior and his friends. The images tend to show either scenic views of the natural landscape, or activities like camping, hiking, fishing, swimming, and many athletic sports, especially track and field. Senior and his friends were members of a Boys Club track team. There are also six views of the 1910 Penn...

Content Description An ledger book with tipped-in illustrative material and ephemera documenting twenty different recreational outings in the area of New York City during the late 1880s and early 1890s by a group of young men. Variously identified as the Sagamore Club or the Wayandance Club, the group typically took to the waters of Long Island Sound aboard hired yachts during warmer weather; in the fall and winter they took pedestrian and hiking outings and carriage rides. The book is illustrated with...

Scope and Contents 100 chromolithographed stereoscopic cards, in original box. Subjects include 82 hunting, fishing, hiking and camping scenes from locations across North America, as well as 18 scenes of Native American camp life, including images of Ojibwa, Siksika, and Lakota people. Many of the images document scenes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest. Cards bear extended descriptions on the reverse.The cards are numbered 401 to 500, with copyright dates...