CALIFORNIA WESTERN HUNTING & FISHING PHOTO ALBUM 1915-1947 STRIPED BASS PHEASANT GROUSE CLEAR LAKE NAPA BIG SUR

Item #1672

The album documents several decades of outdoor sporting trips, largely in California and the West, with approximately 103 photographs total: 86 mounted/glued to pages and 17 loose photographs. Locations include Esparto/Yolo County, Clear Lake, Carquinez Strait, Napa River, Big Sur/Willow Creek near Gorda, Fort Bragg, Grand Island, Vallejo, Sierra, Arizona’s Kaibab Forest, Idaho near Oakley, and Oklahoma. Subjects include pheasant hunting, quail, grouse, sage hen, striped bass fishing, catfishing, trout, boating, camping, pack trips, motorcycles, dogs, cats, women and children fishing, and named sportsmen including Paul Oldham, Clair Ingram, Frank McGrury, Peter Nagel, H. H. Harris, and others.

The annotations are a major part of the charm: hand-lettered captions, maps, jokes, drawings, weights of fish, names of people and dogs, and sporting anecdotes. The loose ephemera adds nicely, especially the 1943 U.S. Department of the Interior migratory bird hunting stamp, 1947 Oklahoma resident fishing license for Paul Oldham, and the newspaper clipping about striped bass still biting.

The album covers are worn with edge wear; inserted black-paper pages are larger than the album covers and extend beyond the binding; pages show chips, tears, edge wear, and curling; photographs are various sizes and glued to the pages, with some wear, creasing, fading, and occasional losses. Still, the album is very legible and visually strong.

Price: $450.00