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 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...