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Ted Trueblood
Collection
Series VII:
Photographic Materials
The Trueblood photography
collection consists of over 4,000 slides, 28,000 negatives, and 2,500 photo
prints. The time span of this
voluminous body of work is the early 1930s through the 1980s; the arrangement in
the series preserves the categories selected by Trueblood.
The subjects of this photo
record reflect the wide variety of the author’s interests---he documented
almost all his outdoor activities. There
are numerous photos of his family and friends joining him in these pursuits as
well as more personal photos of holidays and special occasions.
Trueblood took professional
shots to supplement his articles on fishing, hunting, and camping.
The collection contains many how-to pictures like fly-rod casting
techniques and outdoor cooking methods. A
lot of the pictures were taken in Idaho, but his outdoor experience extended to
numerous other locations. For
example, he and his camera went moose hunting in Alaska, hiked in the Sierra
Nevada mountains, explored the terrain of Baja, Mexico, and fished in Manitoba,
Canada.
A special notebook about elk hunting in the Chamberlain
Basin was created by his son, Jack, and is included in this series.
Ted and Ellen frequently hunted in this area with family and friends; the
photos indicate that they bagged a lot of elk there.
Another favorite
hunting-fishing-camping location was the Owyhee Mountains of Idaho/Oregon. The changes to this area can be seen by comparing slides and
photos taken over several decades.
A wide variety of western animal
and plant life is also represented in the photo collection.
Northwest native fungi was a favorite subject.
Ellen, an accomplished mycologist, took many of these photos on family
outings. In this photo collection
one can experience the western life-style of the Trueblood family, the
life-style that Ted wrote about and worked to preserve.
Book 24/Color Slides: S001- S0759
Ted and Ellen took many photos of vegetation on their
outdoor expeditions. Recorded here
are native Northwest flowers, fruits, and trees, as well as almost 100 different
fungi. Also of interest are 16
slides of antiques owned by the Truebloods.
Book 25/Color Slides: S0800 - S1281
These slides include a wide variety of fish species and
sports fishing from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Bass fishing pictures demonstrate tackle used along with special
equipment and lures. Fly-fishing
photos showcase the proper technique for casting and detailed pictures of
artificial flies. Fishing locations
include mountain lakes, desert reservoirs, and wilderness creeks from Mexico to
British Columbia. Fish species
represented include Atlantic salmon, goldeneye, steelhead, and sturgeon.
Book 26/Color Slides: S1300 - S2146
The main focus in this book is hunting and camping activities
in addition to wildlife. Slides of
everything from big horn sheep to rodents and reptiles, captured in their
natural habitat, are in this group. Bird
hunting with an English pointer, camping and outdoor cooking, and hiking are
just a few of the activities the author or his wife Ellen photographed in these
800+ slides.
Book 27/Color Slides: S2200 - S2783
In this book are landscapes of the West arranged
chronologically by date(1956-1985).
Slides taken after Ted’s death were added to the collection by Ellen.
At the end of the book are pictures of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area
(the first in the United States) located in northwest Montana, just south of
Glacier National Park.
Book 28/Color Slides: S2784 - S3132
Personal-life slides are preserved in this
book---family photos of Christmas and birthdays, and picnics and camping trips.
Of special interest are slides of Morley Nelson with peregrine falcons.
Book 29/Color Slides: S3133 - S3998
This book contains many hunting and camping pictures
also, but there is a wide variety of subjects in this part of the collection.
A cougar hunt is documented, as well as moose and other big game, along
with small mammals, family and friends, flowers and fungi, and landscapes.
Book 30: Chamberlain Basin Elk Hunting
Here, Jack Trueblood has
assembled slides, contact sheets, negative strips, and black and white
photographs of his mother and father’s elk-hunting trips in the Chamberlain
Basin of Idaho.
Book 31: 3" x 5" Negatives
These negatives are some of the
earliest pictures Ted and Ellen snapped. Fishing
in Florida and early shots of Ted writing in the field are found here.
Also preserved are baby pictures of
their son, Dan.
Books 32 - 35: Negative Strips
There are approximately 21,000
negatives in these four volumes. Book
32 holds strips with carp, trout, crappies, bass, and shad fish as well as
diverse fishing locations such as Maine and Colorado. Book 33 is more diverse; negatives include gold panning, the
author’s vegetable garden and his dogs, and relatives and friends.
Book 34 is a record of wide-ranging locations such as Alaska, Florida,
New York, and Wyoming; there are many camping-spot negatives.
Book 35 contains some negatives from 1939 - 1941, which include the earliest
pictures of Ted and Ellen’s life together.
Boxes 36 - 39: Various
Negative strips stored in envelopes E001 - E125 are in
Box 36. The subjects are the same
as those included in the negative strip books.
Boxes 37 and 38 contain over 2700 2" x 3" negatives.
Box 39 contains rare glass slides of family occasions like Christmas and
birthdays; most were taken when the Trueblood children were small.
Boxes 42 - 47: Black & White Photographs
The original photographs filed in
these boxes are numbered 1-2521; most are 8" x 10" prints. Among them are nearly all the photos that appeared in
Trueblood’s Hunting Treasury. Photocopies
of the photos have been arranged by subject in a series of notebooks and are
available for consultation in the Special Collections Department.
A subject order list is provided below.
Barrett, Pete
Bait
Bass
Boats
Camping
Casting
Cattlemen’s Association
Chamberlain Basin
Cock Fighting
Colorado
Cougar
Deer
Dogs
Ducks
Elk
Fishing
Friends
Grayling
Guns/Hunting
Hunting
Ice Fishing
Mayday - Owyhee Reservoir retreat
Mixed & Off the Office Wall
Photography
Rabbits
Sagehen/Pheasant
Salmon
Saltwater/Fishing
Scenery
Sheep & Antelope, Yellowstone
Sierra
Small Animals & Birds
Steelhead
Sturgeon
Tackle
Trout
Upland Birds
Chukar, Hungarian Partridge, Grouse, Quail, Dove
Vermin/Crow
Wilderness
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