Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Ice cream tent, Ocean Day, [Sea Girt, NJ] [graphic].
Date August 15, 1885
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing an ice cream stand on the beach, covered with a large awning, set up for Ocean Day. People gather in front and behind the stand and among other similar stands lined up on the beach. A sign on the ground in front of the stand reads, "Hesses Ice Cream..." Jersey Wash Day, also known as Salt Water Day or Ocean Day, was an annual event held the second Saturday of August near Wreck Pond in Sea Girt. Farmers living twenty to thirty miles from Sea Girt came to the sea to spend a day bathing and celebrating. The tradition, begun before 1853, stopped around the 1930s.
Notes Time: 11:55
Light: Sun out.
Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject Beaches -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt.
Food vendors -- New Jersey -- Sea Girt.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Sea Girt (N.J.)
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.700]
Accession number P.9895.700