Name/Title
Album, PhotographEntry/Object ID
2022.144.173Description
Photo album kept by Game Protector Officer Carl Prue, 1920-1943. Includes more than 130 photographs, newspaper clippings, and notes relating to Prue's career as a game warden. Photographs document hunting trips, illegal poaching activity, fishing, and more. Officers pictured include Carl Prue, Ray Burmaster, Harlow Wheeler, Ernest Welch, and Earl Vosburgh. Photographs were taken across Franklin County, including Saranac Lake, Lake Clear, Malone, and more. All items in album begin with 2022.144.173.
Bound with a string at left-hand side, with leather covers. Cover reads, "Photographs," and photographs are mounted on black paper inside. Some photographs and clippings have been tucked into covers, and some photographs have come loose from their pages.Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
Prue, Carl, Burmaster, Ray, Wheeler, Harlow, Welch, Ernest, Vosburgh, Earl A.Subject Place
City
Saranac LakeState/Province
New YorkCountry
United States of AmericaVillage
Lake PlacidHamlet
Lake ClearCounty
Franklin CountyMade/Created
Date made
1920 - 1943Notes
Date: 1933-1943Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Album, PhotographNomenclature Primary Object Term
AlbumNomenclature Sub-Class
MemorabiliaNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Hunting, Hunting dogs, Hunting trophies, Game keepers, Wildlife conservation, Deer, Deer hunting, Fishing, Boats, Animal traps, WolvesDimensions
Dimension Description
Laying flat, closed.Height
8 inWidth
12-1/2 inDepth
2 in