Days Gone By

William A. Troyer, A happy hunter. Bear hunting is an important recreational sport on the refuge, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, 11 May 1957.

Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Digital Library

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Two Ainu hunters armed with bow and ancient musket, hunting in melting spring snow, Shiraoi, Japan, 1946.

Arctic balloon explorers Knut Frænkel (left) and Nils Strindberg with the first polar bear they shot, 1897.

Unidentified man with deer, Bartow, Florida, ca. 1906.

Source: Florida Memory

A Shammar Bedouin hunter with a shot Asiatic Cheetah and cub, Iraq, 1925.

Deen Dayal, Lord Curzon with Maharaja of Gwalior after a hunting sport, India, 1901.

A dog retrieving a pheasant for his master at Sandy Hollow Game Preserve. Photograph by George Silk. Connecticut, USA, November 1948.

Wallace G. Levison, A hunter sitting with pelts and a rifle in his lap, his dog at his feet and racoons strung up behind him, USA, 1890.

A young boy and his dog at a raccoon hunt. Photograph by Wallace Kirkland, May 1949.

Members of one of the city’s exclusive riding clubs engaged in a fox hunt on the grounds of millionaire William Ball’s estate. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. Muncie, Indiana, USA, May 1937.