Hunting accidents

At top, a man is being carried in a sedan chair, with many porters carrying furniture from a train on the right to his cabin in the wilderness on the left. At bottom, on the left, is a buck holding up a young hunter, exclaiming “To think of anybody mistaking a thing like this for me!” At bottom, on the right, is “The Guide’s Farewell” where a hunter stands outside the door as his guide takes leave of his family. The guide’s wife is weeping into a handkerchief, an infant sitting on the floor is crying, and his son hands him a rifle. The expectation is that he will be shot by accident by the hunter. At center, a man gestures toward his trophy wall and boasts about having “shot every one of them myself.” On the wall are portraits of many men mistaken for one animal or another, and one deer, which was shot “By Accident.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-10-04

At center, animals read the epitaphs on the gravestones in a cemetery and laugh at the victims of hunting accidents. Several vignettes show attempts to prevent additional deaths of hunters by checking their eyesight, educating them on the difference between the body of a deer and that of a man, wearing a disguise made from a deer hide, dressing in armor, and using an iron-plated boat.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-10-29

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909