(CANOEING--NEW YORK) Album with 23 photographs by an amateur photographer of the American Canoe Association's fifth ever general meet. The album contains an abundance of group portraits of appropriately dressed sportsmen; several men are enjoying lots of drink or hamming it up for the camera (including one in which Sherlock Holmes makes a double appearance), as well as pastoral scenes of campsites and charming Hudson River views. Each club had its own particular flag and a group shot in front of the headquarters shows men wearing club sweaters with the totems. Printing-out paper prints, the images measuring 6 1/2x8 1/2 inches (16.5x21.6 cm.), mounted recto only; also includes ephemeral items, the card of Robert Coutant, and news clippings. Oblong folio, full original black morocco, twin-bolt binding, spine rebacked to style and rivets renewed. 1894
The American Canoe Association was founded in 1880 and, from the look of these pictures, was an organization that attracted adventurous eccentrics. Images include the Knickerbocker Canoe Club and the Ianthe Canoe Club of Newark's tent compound, and the firing of the camp cannon.
