Adirondack Rushton Canoe "Sairy Gamp" - Framed Plan, Elevation and Dimensions as Whiteprint. Adirondack Museum / Smithsonian; O.E. Markkula

Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum , 1967. Soft cover. Near Fine. Near Fine. See scans and description. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1967. Oak-framed whiteprint containing the plan, elevation and dimensions of the famous Rushton Canoe "Sairy Gamp", drawn, with the canoe on loan to the museum from the Smithsonian Institution, by O.E. Markkula. Outside frame dimensions are 24 3/4" x 18 3/4"; exposed area is 23 1/2" x 17 1/2". Print is glassed, framed, brownpapered on reverse, and wired for hanging. Near Fine, with no significant blemishes to print or framing; small area of stain at bottom left of print (see image), minor creasing to reverse brown papering, but no tears. Faint amount of age-toning to the whiteprint. Framing was executed in 1977. The Sairy Gamp, built in 1883, was the third of the five 'Rushton Canoes' - the Adirondack canoes built by J. Henry Rushton of Canton, NY for George Washington Sears. Sears was the noted nineteenth-century sportswriter, editor of 'Forest and Stream', and author of the 'Nessmuk' stories (so-called for his having written them under that pseudonym - see scan of 'Nessmuk [not included with item] which greatly popularized self-guided, lightly-equipped camping in the Adirondacks. The other four Rushton canoes were the 'Nessmuk No. 1 (Wood Drake)' in 1880, the 'Susan Nipper' in 1881, the 'Bucktail' in 1884, and the 'Nessmuk No.2 (Rushton-Fairbanks)' in 1885. See images. L311