Recreation

Content Description Four manuscript journals kept by an anonymous young man identified only as E. B. C., mainly describing canoeing trips along the Penobscot River in the Maine woods in the summers of 1901, 1902, 1905, and 1906. The volumes include daily journal entries as well as notes on expenditures, provisions, and flora and fauna. The author's guide on each of these occasions was Henry Francis, a Native American from the Penobscot Nation who lived in Old Town, Maine. The final journal has sparser notes...

Content Description This collection consists of two albums of vernacular photographs recording the travels and activities of the Ernst family of Rochester, New York. The photographs were apparently taken by Louis Ernst, and most pictures measure 3 1/4 inches square, with a few larger pictures present. The albums were well organized with prints grouped by individual occasions or outings. Most groupings and individual photographs are identified, captioned, and dated. Many of the photographs are views taken on...

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Twenty-one mounted and captioned vernacular photographs recording the recreational cruise of the yacht Dream on Long Island Sound, 21-23 July 23-23, 1899. The participants are identified only informally and by nicknames. The images show activities on the yacht and the shoreline.

Content Description The main item in this collection is a homemade photo album titled "Floor Hockey Program: Photo's of Stars" [sic]. The album contains 23 black-and-white photographs measuring between 2.5 X 4.25 inches and 5 x 7 inches documenting an informal boys basement floor hockey league. The photos document about six different teen-age boys who participated in the league. The images depict the boys in posed group shots and posed hockey action including a posed fight. The images also show a radio booth,...

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...