View showing visitors enjoying the public grounds of the Tamany Pea Shore Fishing Company, a social and sporting club founded by Philadelphia artisans in 1803 on the New Jersey Shore above Camden. People stroll on the veranda of the club house remodeled in 1832 and are visible in the upper-floor windows. The building, reflected in the water, is adorned with a flag and a weather-vane shaped as a fish. The kitchen building stands to the right of the main building. Between the two buildings, two men stand in front of a water pump. Couples stroll and an older man fishes on a wooden pier, to which a rowboat is tied, that stretches from the shore. In the right, a rowboat carrying seven passengers (5 men, 2 women) approaches a boy and a man preparing to fish next to their grounded rowboat on the riverbank. Other guests stroll and greet each other on the shore that is lined with trees. Club named after Tamane, a respected Delware chief who purportedly died near the site fo the clubhouse., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 742, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #72., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: Snider gift., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 03 Tl 53., Gift of Jay Snider., Date of founding of the club from article in Public Ledger, October 12, 1882.
Creator
Scott, Thomas M., artist
Date
[ca. 1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W363 [P.9830.9]
Film negative showing a group of adults and children fishing off the side of a wooden dock at Sea Girt. One child lays on their stomach and leans out over the water. The other child holds a string with bait over the water. Two people paddle a canoe to the right of the dock and a large building stands on the shore., August & September, 1908., 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.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.282]
