Sale 21JJ01 | Lot 46

[AMERICAN SPORTING CLUBS] FOX, WILLIAM L., HORACE W. SHELMIRE, etc. The Minnisink Hunting & Fishing Club.

Catalogue: Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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[AMERICAN SPORTING CLUBS] FOX, WILLIAM L., HORACE W. SHELMIRE, etc. The Minnisink Hunting & Fishing Club.
N.p. [Philadelphia]: n.d. [1914]. Faux leather album of photographs, housed in a green morocco backed clamshell case. 10 x 14 inches (27.5 x 34 cm); 174 photographs (including nine panoramic images), chiefly 3 1/2 x 6 inches, on black album leaves, many titled in white ink. First leaf repaired at gutter, some marginal chipping of album leaves, two photographs removed. Photographs generally fresh (two loose with damage along one edge).
An early and interesting photographic record of the Minnisink Hunting and Fishing Club in the eastern Poconos, from the initial survey to construction of a board and batten lodge with stone fireplace to the first autumn hunting trip. The photographs include views of Bushkill Falls and a trip to High Knob, pictures of the camp, group and individual portraits, deer hunting (with several trophies), grouse shooting, fishing, and boating. In his entry for Oliver Howard Wolfe's account of the club, Back Log and Pine Knot (1916), Heller notes that the Minnisink was a small club of 8 members.
The album is divided into three sections, with names of the participants given for each venture, as follows.
Pioneer Trip, May 15 to 18 -1914: (16 photos including one composite panoramic view); members William L. Fox, Horace W. Shelmire.
Building Expedition, September 5 to 21, 1914 (36 photos); William L. Fox, O. Howard Wolfe, Horace W. Shelmire, David R. Shelmire, George R. Fleming. with honorary members David Shelmire, Matt Wolfe and helpers: Grant Robertson, J. Monroe Heller.
Gunning Trip, November 7 to 23 -1914 (122 photos including 6 panoramic views); William L. Fox, O. Howard Wolfe, S. Judson Parrott, George Edward Levis, Walter Peirson Jr., David R. Shelmire, Horace W. Shelmire. George Green, Cook. Cf. Heller 759.


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Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

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