Description: This photograph shows men duck hunting using a small boat. It was most likely taken around the Sandusky area. During the late 1800s, the Lake Erie marshes were known as some of the best waterfowl hunting areas in the United States. As early as 1890 much of the wetland area was being operated for private shooting. By the end of 1951 the entire 30,000 acres of remaining marshland along Lake Erie, from Toledo to Sandusky, was under private club ownership. Today, the region still supports some of the most intensively developed and managed waterfowling clubs in the Midwest. The Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, purchased by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in August 1951, lies in some of Ohio’s finest remaining wetlands. The marsh complex has historically been inhabited by large numbers of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, and songbirds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_014_001
Subjects: Duck hunting; Hunting--Ohio; Hunting and fishing clubs--United States; Marshes--Ohio; Sandusky (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Plants and Animals; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a man duck hunting. It was most likely taken around the Sandusky area. During the late 1800s, the Lake Erie marshes were known as some of the best waterfowl hunting areas in the United States. As early as 1890 much of the wetland area was being operated for private shooting. By the end of 1951 the entire 30,000 acres of remaining marshland along Lake Erie, from Toledo to Sandusky, was under private club ownership. Today, the region still supports some of the most intensively developed and managed waterfowling clubs in the Midwest. The Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, purchased by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in August 1951, lies in some of Ohio’s finest remaining wetlands. The marsh complex has historically been inhabited by large numbers of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, and songbirds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_017_001
Subjects: Duck hunting; Hunting--Ohio; Hunting and fishing clubs--United States; Marshes--Ohio; Sandusky (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Plants and Animals; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a man duck hunting. It was most likely taken around the Sandusky area. During the late 1800s, the Lake Erie marshes were known as some of the best waterfowl hunting areas in the United States. As early as 1890 much of the wetland area was being operated for private shooting. By the end of 1951 the entire 30,000 acres of remaining marshland along Lake Erie, from Toledo to Sandusky, was under private club ownership. Today, the region still supports some of the most intensively developed and managed waterfowling clubs in the Midwest. The Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, purchased by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in August 1951, lies in some of Ohio’s finest remaining wetlands. The marsh complex has historically been inhabited by large numbers of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, and songbirds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_002_001
Subjects: Duck hunting; Hunting--Ohio; Hunting and fishing clubs--United States; Marshes--Ohio; Sandusky (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Plants and Animals; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a man duck hunting. It was most likely taken around the Sandusky area. During the late 1800s, the Lake Erie marshes were known as some of the best waterfowl hunting areas in the United States. As early as 1890 much of the wetland area was being operated for private shooting. By the end of 1951 the entire 30,000 acres of remaining marshland along Lake Erie, from Toledo to Sandusky, was under private club ownership. Today, the region still supports some of the most intensively developed and managed waterfowling clubs in the Midwest. The Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, purchased by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in August 1951, lies in some of Ohio’s finest remaining wetlands. The marsh complex has historically been inhabited by large numbers of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, and songbirds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_040_001
Subjects: Duck hunting; Hunting--Ohio; Hunting and fishing clubs--United States; Marshes--Ohio; Sandusky (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Plants and Animals; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a men duck hunting using a small boat. It was most likely taken around the Sandusky area. During the late 1800s, the Lake Erie marshes were known as some of the best waterfowl hunting areas in the United States. As early as 1890 much of the wetland area was being operated for private shooting. By the end of 1951 the entire 30,000 acres of remaining marshland along Lake Erie, from Toledo to Sandusky, was under private club ownership. Today, the region still supports some of the most intensively developed and managed waterfowling clubs in the Midwest. The Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, purchased by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in August 1951, lies in some of Ohio’s finest remaining wetlands. The marsh complex has historically been inhabited by large numbers of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, and songbirds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_043_001
Subjects: Duck hunting; Hunting--Ohio; Hunting and fishing clubs--United States; Marshes--Ohio; Sandusky (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Plants and Animals; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a man duck hunting. It was most likely taken around the Sandusky area. During the late 1800s, the Lake Erie marshes were known as some of the best waterfowl hunting areas in the United States. As early as 1890 much of the wetland area was being operated for private shooting. By the end of 1951 the entire 30,000 acres of remaining marshland along Lake Erie, from Toledo to Sandusky, was under private club ownership. Today, the region still supports some of the most intensively developed and managed waterfowling clubs in the Midwest. The Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, purchased by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in August 1951, lies in some of Ohio’s finest remaining wetlands. The marsh complex has historically been inhabited by large numbers of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, and songbirds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_044_001
Subjects: Duck hunting; Hunting--Ohio; Hunting and fishing clubs--United States; Marshes--Ohio; Sandusky (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Plants and Animals; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows two men duck hunting, in a small boat. It was most likely taken around the Sandusky area. During the late 1800s, the Lake Erie marshes were known as some of the best waterfowl hunting areas in the United States. As early as 1890 much of the wetland area was being operated for private shooting. By the end of 1951 the entire 30,000 acres of remaining marshland along Lake Erie, from Toledo to Sandusky, was under private club ownership. Today, the region still supports some of the most intensively developed and managed waterfowling clubs in the Midwest. The Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, purchased by the Ohio Division of Wildlife in August 1951, lies in some of Ohio’s finest remaining wetlands. The marsh complex has historically been inhabited by large numbers of waterfowl, waterbirds, shorebirds, and songbirds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_045_001
Subjects: Duck hunting; Hunting--Ohio; Hunting and fishing clubs--United States; Marshes--Ohio; Sandusky (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Plants and Animals; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: A father and son spend some time with the family dog as they pass a day hunting crows on this southern Ohio farm. Photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B04_F09_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Hunting -- Ohio; Crow hunting
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Beryl Drummond with his hunting dogs, Blue and Bugler, Waterloo, Ohio, 1941. Born June 16, 1918, Beryl Esco Drummond was a member of the "Waterloo Wonders" high school basketball team, of Waterloo, Ohio. They were the second Ohio high school basketball team in Class B to win consecutive state championships, in 1934 and 1935. After high school, Drummond continued to play semi-professional basketball with teams such as the Whiskered Wizards and the Acme Aviators (sponsored by the Acme Pattern & Toll Company of Dayton, Ohio). He played his last basketball game in the winter of 1952, after a disappointing game at the Knights of Columbus gym in Columbus, Ohio. He later worked as assistant superintendent at Sleepy Hollow Golf Club in Brecksville, Ohio and at the Green Acres Country Club in Florida. He died April 26, 1982. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06027
Subjects: Waterloo (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Basketball--Ohio--History; Dogs; Animals; Hunting
Places: Waterloo (Ohio); Lawrence County (Ohio); Cadmus (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration depicting the "Great Hinckley Hunt," which took place on December 24, 1818. Farmers in the area of Medina County saw the wildlife as a natural enemy to the safety of not only their families but their crops as well. It was decided that four lines would be formed by over 500 men from around the township of Hinckley, who would then proceed to hunt towards township's center. In one day of hunting, the men killed three hundred deer, seventeen wolves, twenty one bears, and countless small game. Only one man was injured. The image is taken from Henry Howe's "Historical Collection of Ohio," 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03975
Subjects: Animals; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Hunting--Ohio;
Places: Medina (Ohio); Medina County (Ohio)
 

Description: Early print by Currier & Ives titled "October afternoon," from the "American Country Life" series, published before James Ives was added to the company name. This illustration shows two men and a young boy returning from hunting to a waiting mother and infant. During the mid to late nineteenth century, the Currier & Ives printing firm was a well-known producer of lithographic prints. Common subjects matter included historical events such as the Civil and Revolutionary Wars, the North American landscape, rural life in the United States and wildlife. Nathaniel Currier began his career in the printing business as an apprentice at a Boston printing firm in 1828, and opened his own printing firm in New York in 1835. James Ives joined the firm in 1852 as a bookkeeper, and was soon made a partner in 1857. They sold prints from their own New York shop and also distributed them through peddlers and country stores across the United States. Currier and Ives were both succeeded in the printing business by their sons, Edward West Currier and Chauncey Ives. Both sons eventually sold their interest in the firm, and in 1907 the last owner, Daniel W. Logan, closed the business and sold the printing equipment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H39604
Subjects: Art, American--Ohio; Prints and printmaking; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Hunting; Rural Life;
Places: New York (New York);
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Code:K12; Class.: Human Interest; Ident.: Hunter Asleep; Caption: Sportsman's Paradise or Asleep at the Post. This photo must be returned to Ohio Writers' Project, 78 E. Chestnut St. Columbus, Ohio." This is a photograph of a hunter sleeping against the trunk of a tree somewhere in the woods of Ohio. There is squirrel to the right of his head and a piece of straw in his mouth. He has ammunition around his waist and a gun leaning on his leg. There is also a river or pond behind him in the background. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F02_029_001
Subjects: Hunting--Ohio; Forest animals; Forests and Forestry; Naps (Sleep); Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Ohio