Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Professor Charles Frederick Holder and boatman Jim Gardner [Mexican Joe?] displaying a fish at Catalina, 1898. A large tuna fish can be seen at right hung by its gills from a pole. Jim Gardner is visible at center. He is wearing a large straw hat, vest and long pants. He has a long pole with a large metal hook at left. Dr. Holder is visible at left and can be seen wearing a corduroy suit and striped hat. He has a gray beard and glasses and is holding a long fishing pole. Holder was a conservationist, sportsman, and professor of Piscatorial science. Please note that some sources identify the boatman as "Mexican Joe" (also known as Jose Felice Presiado). "Avalon, June 2. -- Prof. C.F. Holder of Pasadena, after a fight of about four hours in a heavy sea, with Jim Gardner as boatman, made the record catch probably of the world yesterday, taking a leaping tuna weighing 183 ponds on rod and reel and twenty-one cuttuhunk line..." -- LA Herald, June 3rd, 1898.
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image
Format
5 photographs : photonegative, transparency, photoprints, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) transparencies photographic prints photographs
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