Walden Pell II (1902-1983) (after)
Snipe Shooter's Map of Shinnecock Bay Long Island About 1920--
Birds After Fuertes & Peterson
Long Island: c. 1930s-1940s
Offset cyanotype print
21.75 x 67 inches
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Large specialty illustrated ornithological and topographical map of the Shinnecock Bay section in the Hamptons extending from Quogue to the Shinnecock Lighthouse. An interesting exceedingly rare document of the Hamptons in the early stages of its development as a tourist and recreational area. Shinnecock Bay still supports significant numbers of nesting water birds.
Various species of indigenous birds throughout the bay and surrounding areas are illustrated including snipe, ducks, swans, egrets, and ubiquitous seagulls. There are additional illustrations of boats (some named), houses, tents, trees, dunes, etc. Sites illustrated include Shinnecock Light House, which stood from 1858 to 1948, and Shinnecock Yacht Club. The map is embellished with an Art Deco compass rose.
The map cartouche states that it shows the region in 1920, and that the bird illustrations are based on those of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) and Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996). Fuertes is considered the greatest American bird illustrator of his time, a latter day Audubon. As an ornithologist, illustrator, and author, Peterson popularized bird watching with his Field Guide to Birds, first published in 1934.
Inasmuch as the map artist, Walden Pell, credits Fuertes and Peterson in the title of the map, it is likely that the map was made no earlier than the 1934, when Peterson gained fame with the publication of his first bird guide. Pell was born and raised in Quogue, so evidently he created the map as a depiction of the area as he remembered (or first mapped it) as a youth in 1920, the date specified in the title.
The following locations are among those identified on the map:
Places: Quogue, Pine Neck, Ponquogue Point, Rampasture Point, Lane Island, The Greenbacks, Willet Point, Gull Island, Grass Island, Phillips Point, Heron Woods, Penniman's Point, Canal Point, Gunner's Island, German's Point, Egret Point, Common Meadow.
Points of Interest: Shinnecock Yacht Club, Wagon Road, USCG Tiana, Q.F.C. Golf Course, Shinnecock Light House, M. Smith's Snipe Blind, Halfway House
Bodies of Water: Shinnecock Bay, Atlantic Ocean, Wrack Channel, Hong Kong, The Old Inlet, Dry Bar, Phillips Creek, Stone Creek, Penniman's Creek, Quogue Canal, Hole-in-the-Wall
Walden Pell II was born in Quogue, New York, a descendant of the Van Buren family which traced its ancestry back to a Dutch settler in New York in 1608, and which also included President Martin Van Buren. Pell graduated from Princeton in 1924 and was a Rhodes Scholar. He served as the first headmaster of the St. Andrew's School of Middletown, Delaware.
References:
Müller, Robert G. "Shinnecock Bay." 13 February 2001. http://www.longislandlighthouses.com/shinnecock.htm (11 March 2003).
"Shinnecock Bay." New York Audubon Society. http://ny.audubon.org/iba/shinnecock.html (11 March 2003).
"WDC GenWeb -- Descendants of Cornelis Van Buren." Rootsweb.com. http://www.rootsweb.com/~deschart/z0000624.html (11 March 2003).