Search Term Record
Metadata
Name |
Fish |
Related Records
-
-
Print, Photographic - 2017.009p.0001
Reprinted photograph of Otto Seidler with a 525 pound grouper he caught in early 1900s. The photo was taken in Velasco, Texas and was later a one-cent postcard (possibly by Roeller). Seidler was a blacksmith. Notes on back state the fish was caught with a home-made hook on rope using a small sting ray for bait. The rope was tied to a pole and wedged among rocks, and a large home-made cork was used to keep the bait off the bottom. Otto Seidle...
Record Type: Photo
