[Feather River Fishing Photograph Album and Scrapbook]

[California, 1928. 131 mounted black and white photographs, and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Black card wrappers, string tied. A few photographs or items of ephemera perished, generally very good. Black cloth clamshell box with printed lbel. 131 mounted black and white photographs, and more than 75 items of typescript and printed ephemera inserted. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Nicely illustrated photograph album and scrapbook of the convivial businessman J.W. Fricke of San Francisco, who fished for rainbow trout from his cabin on the Feather River in the California Sierras. The album includes Fricke’s fishing licenre is a calligraphic page for the “Golden Feather Cabeen and Some Famous Fishermen Who Visit There”, naming on successive pages Frank F. Weber, C.W. Callender, J.H. Vogt, Edwin D. Weary (whose typed verses in praise of the Feather River are included), and E.R. Billet who also typed some verses, sometimes with notes in white ink. Photographs are often dated and captioned (chiefly 1919-1923), and show views of stream, interiors of the cabin, the friends, bathing scenes, and the fishing. There are also a few photos recording a trip to the Père Raquette river in Michigan, and a newspaper account of fishing the Rogue River in Oregon; and some printed verses in praise of Fricke’s hospitality dated 1928.

A PLEASING GLIMPSE OF WESTERN ANGLING IN THE 1920s.