[Album of Original Vernacular Photographs of Deer Hunts at Happy Camp and Horse Springs, Modoc County, 1925-26]

[Modoc County, California, 1926. 107 photographs, most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches, but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches, mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin, or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. Contemporary three-quarter leather and patterned paper photo album, string-tied. Boards quite rubbed and worn. The photographs in quite nice condition. Very good overall. 107 photographs, most 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches, but others ranging from 2-3/4 x 2 inches to 10 x 8 inches, mounted to eleven card-stock leaves. About one-third of the photographs with manuscript captions in the lower margin, or typed captions in the image. 1 vols. Oblong 11 x 14 inches. An evocative portrait of deer hunting and other outdoor activities in northern California in the mid-1920s. Many of the activities depicted took place in Modoc County in the far northeast of the state, while other camps were made in Shasta National Forest. The album bears the ownership signature of Dr. John H. Brunings on the front pastedown. In a newspaper clipping affixed to one of the album leaves Brunings, of San Francisco, is identified as a "well known sportsman." Among those depicted in the album is a favored hunting partner of Bruning's, Dr. L.N. Briones, also of San Francisco.
Much of the album depicts hunters in the field with numerous recent kills and trophies, showing the deer field-dressed in place, hanging from trees and camp poles, draped over car hoods or horses, or antlers affixed to other camp structures, or car hoods (45 total photographs); duck hunters with daily kills, some showing dozens (12); the deer hunters in the field or in camp (17); hunters in the field, with a beautiful setter and shotguns (9); a hunter with recently killed rabbits (1); views of the hunting grounds in the Modoc County mountains (7); miscellaneous images of Dr. Brunings, mostly with friends, in the outdoors (13); Brunings in the U.S. Navy, in China (1); view of main street in Adin, California (1); and an image of a "pinto" deer, a buck with distinct white patches, killed by Brunings near Gualala, California (1 photograph, the 10 x 8 print).
Typed captions appear either in the image or in the margins of twenty photographs, mostly from Happy Camp and Horse Springs, nineteen others have ink captions in the margins. The captions note locations, as well as the names of many of those depicted.