Visual Materials

Sporting and recreation, miscellaneous

Description: Snapshots of White fishing and in various sporting and recreational activities. A woman who appears to be his wife, Betty, is also in several photographs.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1906-1937.
Call number: photCL 426
Creator: White, Stewart Edward (1873-1946)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Harwood A. White, 1947.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Travel and personal photographs

Visual Materials

A collection of photographs taken by Stewart Edward White on his travels in Africa and the United States, and images documenting his army training during World War I. The travel images focus on outdoor recreation, particularly fishing, hunting, and boating. White appears in some images, as does his wife (sometimes called Bessie or Betty), and many are captioned in White's handwriting.

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Lake Tahoe (California and Nevada)

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Fifteen snapshots of White and others canoeing, fishing, and wakeboarding.

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Oversize prints, miscellaneous

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A collection of approximately 1,800 photographs, almost all taken by Stewart Edward White during his outdoor recreational travels in Africa, the United States, and Canada. The prints are primarily 3 x 5 inches or smaller, with a few larger, mounted photographs. Many have handwritten captions in White's hand on the back, along with chapter or article numbers. The Africa photographs depict White and others on safari, posing with killed animals, as well as African men and women and natural scenery. Some of these images were used in the following books by White: The Land of Footprints (1912), African Camp Fires (1913), The Rediscovered Country (1915), and Lions in the Path (1926). Other photographs depict White in the army at Camp Kearny, San Diego; the Bohemian Grove, California and participants; fishing and boating in the Sierras, and a photograph of Native Americans in Yosemite. The second series consists of film stills from two movies based on White's novels: Call of the North (1921) and The Leopard Woman (1920).

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Stewart Edward White photograph collection

Visual Materials

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Alaska and British Columbia

Visual Materials

Approximately 300 photographs by White featuring fishing, boats, bear sightings, scenery, and some unidentified people.

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Sierras

Visual Materials

White and others in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. Images include horseback riding, scenery, cabins, surveyors, logging, and captive bear cubs. Some have captions titled "The Pass" and "Sierras" by White. One image of four Native American women sitting with a white woman is captioned by White: "One of the white Indians, Maude Cheppo - the other myself." Research shows that a Maud Chepo is listed in Madera County in the Census of Non-reservation California Indians, 1905-1906 (C. E. Kelsey; Robert Fleming Heizer, 1971).

photCL 426

Sporting and recreation, miscellaneous

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