Fishing the Gila River
Dateca. 1950
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 11/16 × 9 1/2 in. (19.6 × 24.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.181.985
DescriptionA fisherman wears waders and casts into the west fork of the Gila River in New Mexico. He has a creel around his waist. There is a small waterfall in teh background. Rocky cliffs are in the background. A typed caption on the back of the photograph reads, "To fish the upper waters of the Gila River in New Meico requires a trip by horseback for at least twenty miles into the Gila Wilderness Area. This fisherman is after trout in the West Fork of the Gila, near the White Creek Ranger Station."
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ca. 1950