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[CALIFORNIA-HUNTING] BRUNINGS, DR. JOHN H. Photographic album of deer hunting in Happy Camp, Horse Springs, and other sites in Modoc County, California.
Adin and various camps in Modoc County, CA: 1925-1926. Decorated paper sides, leather spine. 11 x 14 1/2 inches (27 x 35 cm); 107 photographs, most 3 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches, but others ranging from 2 3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches, mounted to 11 card-stock leaves, mostly both sides, picturing Brunings and his hunting companions with trophies taken in the field. Exterior of album very worn.
Much of the album depicts hunters in the field with numerous recent kills and trophies, showing the deer field-dressed in place, hanging from trees and camp poles, draped over car hoods or horses, or antlers affixed to other camp structures, car hoods (45 photographs); duck hunters with daily kills, some showing dozens (12); the deer hunters in the field or in camp (17); hunters in the field, with a beautiful setter and shotguns (9); a hunter with recently killed rabbits (1); views of the hunting grounds in the Modoc County mountains (7); miscellaneous images of Brunings, mostly with friends, in the outdoors (13); Brunings in the U.S. Navy, in China (1); view of main street in Adin, California (1); and an image of a "pinto" deer, a buck with distinct white patches, killed by Brunings near Gualala, California (1, the 10 x 8 print). Typed captions appear either in the image or in the margins of 20 photographs, mostly from Happy Camp and Horse Springs, 19 others have ink captions in the margins; with the ownership signature of Brunings on the front pastedown. An evocative portrait of deer hunting and other outdoor activities in California in the mid-1920s.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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