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]
