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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