John T. Bailey poses with ducks from a shoot, Orange County vicinity, about 1912

Item Overview

Title

John T. Bailey poses with ducks from a shoot, Orange County vicinity, about 1912

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

about 1912

Date

1912

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

John T. Bailey stands in profile and poses for a photograph with about a dozen dead ducks killed on a shoot. He stands at center, facing right, with ducks tethered to a strap that is slung over his shoulder. His visible hand hangs at his side while it grasps a few ducks. He wears boots, a jacket and a fedora. His shadow casts towards the left corner. In the distance, a picket fence just enters the frame at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 306. Cazadores Gun Club. About 1912. John T. Bailey. President of Bailey-Schmitz Co., Los Angeles. Not a very good shot, and sold out in a couple of years. When he sold, he told me I could have his room at the clubmand[sic] the bed in it. It was the only room with a bed; all the other rooms had only an army cot, but John being in the Furniture business had taken down a good single bed and bedding. When I bought into the Sunset I left Bailey's bed at the Cazadores, as I had bought a share in the Sunset that entitled me to sleep in a shack outside the club - a small portable house that Doc Hardin had bot[sic] from a man (name forgotten) [from the left margin: His name was Fred Walton] who was agent for the Lankershims, who took the shack to the Cazadores Club so he could take his wife down and have a place for her. He sold out on the Cazadores and Doc Hardin bot[sic] the little house and moved it to the Sunset Club, and I gave Doc. over

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Cazadores Gun Club
Bailey, John T., 1865-1940

Location

California--Orange County

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Hunting & fishing clubs--California--Orange County
Hunters--American--California--Orange County
Dead animals--California
Duck shooting--California
Ducks