Hunting and fishing clubs

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one sepia-tone photograph, mounted on board, of members of the Silver Hook Fishing Club. The photograph was taken by E. W. Brown of Moorefield, West Virginia. It is inscribed at the top "Camp of the Silver Hook Fishing Club." In the photograph, a group of men are pictured at their camp, and a couple of the men are African American. Several of the men are holding rifles. Also visible are three dogs, one of which appears emaciated. The photograph is dated circa...

Scope and Contents This game book is from the Klondike Lodge in Elkin, North Carolina. The title page is inscribed "Thurmond Chatham" and was presented as a gift to Chatham from C.C. Auchicloss of New York, and John Saltonstall of Boston, according to an inscription. Chatham has compiled narrative accounts of game shooting by him and others (guests and family members that included his sons, Dick and Hugh) in North Carolina and beyond: duck hunting at W.S. Crain's shoot in Currituck, the Wright Brothers'...