Here are two very strange wood canoe photos from what is described as a 1911 carnival on Pocono Lake, Pennsylvania. The photo descriptions are to the effect of:
"Film negative showing a canoe draped in fabric and filled with branches floating on the lake at Pocono Lake. A hooded Wilbur Wilford sits at one end of the canoe while Miss Avery dressed in white lays with her eyes closed on the other side. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground."
My guess is that this was to emulate the Greek mythology of Charon paddling a deceased woman across the River Styx to Hades.
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