Fishing

Two unidentified members of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party show off a fish they caught while fishing off the coast of Key West, Florida. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4 X 5 negative.

An unidentified member of President Harry S. Truman's vacation party shows his catch in the back of a truck during their vacation in Key West, Florida. From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4 X 5 negative.

Stuart A. Rice quote "Trout Brook - Olmstedville. Staker - bridge by Floyds".

An unidentified man is fishing in an unidentified location, possibly in New York area. Other nearby photos were taken in New York.

President Harry S. Truman and Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman fishing from the boat "Big Wheel" off Key West, Florida while on vacation.

Form left to right; Admiral William Leahy, President Harry S. Truman and Captain Willard A. Saunders weigh the fish they had just caught in Key west, Florida. President Truman was on a vacation excursion to Key West.

Chief of U.S. Forest Service, Lyle F. Watts, fishing for wall-eyes along the international border near Curtain Falls in the Superior National Forest.

(L to R) U.S. Forest Chief Lyle Watts, Forester Salminen, Ranger Valentine, and Forester Pike with walleyes caught below Curtain Falls on the international border between Iron Lake and Crooked Lake in Superior National Forest.

A forester fly fishes in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. Photos 2009-3080-01 through 2009-3080-107 were originally mounted in a leather bound binder with the gold embossed title, "Picture Memories of Region Nine." Region Nine, based in Milwaukee, WI, covered twenty states in the Eastern Region: Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey. Lyle Watts was Regional Forester of Region Nine 1936-1943.

Lyle Watts, dressed in a business suit, shows us a stringer of fish while standing outside a U.S. Forest Service log building. Photo made from original glass negative.