Subject: Decoys (Hunting) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of 2 ducks floating in an irrigation ditch. They have been injured and tied to serve as decoys for a duck shoot. They float close to the ditch's bank on the left. The ditch extends from the low right corner up towards the left and terminates at the horizon. Built up earth stretches along the opposite bank on the right. There appears to be lens flare in this image.
Date:: [circa 1908]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Jesse Shanklin, keeper of the Alamo Gun Club, stands in front of the clubhouse porch and cleans ducks. He looks to camera and holds a duck. To his right, ducks lie lined up in a row on a bench. On the porch behind him, duck decoys lie in a pile on the porch floor and some sit atop the porch rail. A bed is visible on the right side of the porch.
Date:: [1910-1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: An out-of-focus photograph of Glen Velzy standing in a pond and picking up a duck he shot while visiting the Sunset Gun Club. Glen Velzy wades in the pond, left-of-center. He bends over, facing towards the camera, to pick up a duck out of the water. Beneath his other arm, he carries his rifle. The pond stretches into the distance behind him. A dozen or so duck decoys float behind Glen. An embankment lines the opposite end of the pond in the background.
Date:: October 31, 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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