Image / Samuel Emmons Hollister fighting with a bear

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Title: Samuel Emmons Hollister fighting with a bear
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
1853-03
Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Photograph of a lithograph (created by Henry C. Eno) of Samuel Emmons Hollister (1817-1876) fighting with a bear, in a famous encounter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The inscription on the original lithograph reads "S. E. Hollister, the Great American Hunter and Trapper." Hollister, originally from Saratoga, New York, was a California pioneer who captured bears for exhibit in New York.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into 8-bit, JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/614
Language: English
Subject: Art
Bear hunting
Bears
Lithographs
Men
Eno, Henry C
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Place: California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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