These are two old photographs said to be from the 1885 picnic. The first one is from a newspaper, possibly the Wilmington News Journal about the Collett-McKay Picnic believed to have been taken in 1885 titled "Quakers at Play: The Collett-McKay picnic at Buck Run, circa 1885. The 2nd one is a copy of photograph that was given to me (the webmaster) by Bill and Janice McClain while attending the 2008 picnic.

Quakers at Play: The Collett-McKay picnic at Buck Run, circa 1885

2nd photo from 8th August 1885.

In the first photo there is Only one person I can identify so far and that is Tilgham McKay who is second from left in the first row. In the 2nd picture there appears to be more people present. One year there were 512 people present. I do not remember if this was that year or not. Due to the quality of the photo the enlarged version looks very grainy but you can make out some of the faces in it. It was reproduced under the best conditions available given the status of the original photo.

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