Trade card for Melville Garden clambake, Crow Point, Mass., 1880
Description:
Melville Garden was a summer resort in Crow Point (also known as Downer Landing), Massachusetts on the headland at the mouth of the Hingham River. A waiter serves a plate of clams to a woman and man seated at a table inside a clamshell. James D. Scudder, who was the proprietor of Melville Garden and superintendent of Downer Landing, copyrighted the trade card in 1880.
