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| Mink Trap in Old Stump |
| FES Title: | mink trap in old stump | |
| Alternate Titles: | A Dead Fall for Marten (1931, 1934) | |
| Date: | 1903 | |
| Size: | 0″H x 0″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Schoonover, Frank E. “Breaking Trail.” Scribner’s Magazine, May 1905: 575. caption: A dead-fall for mink and marten. Schoonover, Frank E. The Edge of the Wilderness, edited by Cortlandt Schoonover. Toronto: Methuen, 1974: 97. |
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| Inscription: | mr: F.E.S. | |
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| Exhibitions: | 1931 FES; 1934 Wesleyan | |
| Comments: | index; edit | |
| Commentary: | “After a while, you find the big clumsy tracks of a lynx.” (trip diary) Evidently, the lynx would venture to the trap hoping to find animals that would make a good meal. See #194 for further commentary. See related photograph by Schoonover of a mink trap in Canada. (#213p) |
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| Provenance: | Artist; Helen L. Card, Latentdorf Bookshop, New York (as of July 22, 1959); not known | |
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