Jun 18, 2019
June 18th is International Picnic Day! Hagley Library staff will be stuck indoors, unfortunately. We’ll be commemorating the day instead with these photographs of a September 12, 1914 Pusey and Jones Company picnic at Fenton's Beach in Pennsville Township, New Jersey. The Pusey and Jones Company built ships and machines in Wilmington, Delaware between 1848 and 1959. The Hagley Library’s Pusey and Jones Corporation photograph collection (Accession 1972.350) includes images from both the shipbuilding and machine making components of the business, beginning in the late 19th century.
Selections from this collection have been digitized and are maintained on the Hagley Library’s Digital Archive - click here to take a look!