Photograph
Two Clergymen Fishing on Archibald Lake
| Two clergymen and one boy are sitting in a clinker-built duck boat on Archibald Lake. The clergyman on the left is holding a long cane pole. The clergyman on the right is holding up a fish. Photographer Lucy Rumsey Holt (out of frame) is sitting in a rowboat with an oar in the oarlock in the left foreground. Caption reads: "Two of the clergy... fishing." |
| Image ID: | 137622 |
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| Creation Date: | 1900 |
| Creator Name: | Holt, Lucy |
| City: | Townsend |
| County: | Oconto |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Lucy Holt photo albums, 1895-1936 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | M2018-012, Album 1 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4.687 x 3.562 inches |
| This photo shows Lucy Rumsey Holt taking photographs in the field, specifically while rowing a boat. Lucy and W.A. Holt were devout Presbyterians. They were active members of the First Presbyterian church in Oconto, WI starting in the 1890's. They also had connections to the First Presbyterian Church in Lake Forest, Illinois. Sources: 1938, January 7. Mrs. W.A. Holt Passes Away at Home Tuesday. Oconto County Reporter, p.1.; 1953, May 14. W.A. Holt Dies; Rites Friday for City Industrialist. Oconto County Reporter, pp.1,8. "Clinker built is a method of boat building where the edges of the hull planks overlap," similar to shingles. This technique is also called lapstrake. An example of clinker construction is a Viking longship. (Source: Wikipedia). |
| Outdoor photography |
| Fishing |
| Clergy |
| Presbyterian churches |
| Religion |
| Boats and boating |
| Canoes and canoeing |
| Lakes |
| Shorelines |
| Men |
| Fishes |
| Trees |
| Clothing and dress |
| Hats |
| Islands |
| Children |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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