Hunting camp at Peck's Lake, 21 miles north of Fort Verde, Ariz. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Hunting camp at Peck's Lake, 21 miles north of Fort Verde, Ariz., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hunting camp at Peck's Lake, 21 miles north of Fort Verde, Ariz.
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A winter hunting camp at Peck's Lake, about 21 miles north of Fort Verde in Arizona Territory, is the scene here, dated January 24, 1887. The photograph is credited to Edgar A. Mearns, an army surgeon and naturalist who was stationed at Fort Verde during these years. The caption card ties the camp to the cavalry, which fits the period, when soldiers from frontier posts often hunted for food and collected natural history specimens in the surrounding country. The details come from an old caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1887 Jan. 24. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by Edgar A. Mearns. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, U.S.--Cavalry; Ariz.--Peck's Lake; Hunting; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 917 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131830 |
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