Lure case photograph
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Title |
Lure case photograph |
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Subject |
Cases (containers); Lures; Fishing--Equipment and supplies; Fishing tackle; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939 |
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Time Period |
1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s |
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Place |
Norwich (Ohio); Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio) |
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Description |
Fly-fishing lure case has a long, cylindrical body and a separate lid. The clear plastic case is marked with a graphic of a jumping fish and text: "Made by Shoff, Kent, Washington." The inside of the steel cap is marked "#19." The case contains seven small fly lures and dates from 1895 to 1939. The lure case included in a collection of materials related to writer Zane Grey (1872-1939). His three children (Romer Grey, Loren Grey, and Betty Zane Grosso) donated this collection to the Ohio Historical Society in 1968. Zane Grey was a popular novelist of the American West. He was born Pearl Zane Gray in Zanesville, Ohio, to Lewis Gray and Alice Josephine Zane Gray. The family later changed the spelling of its surname, and Zane Grey dropped his first name. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied dentistry. After practicing dentistry for fewer than ten years, Grey decided to become a writer. He drew the inspiration for his first novel, “Betty Zane” (1904), from the stories about frontier Ohio he had heard as a boy. At first he could not find a publisher for the book, but he refused to give up. Grey traveled west and continued his writing. In 1910 he had his first success when “Harper's Magazine” published “The Heritage of the Desert.” Two years later “Harper's” published “Riders of the Purple Sage.” Grey married Lina Elise Roth in 1905. The couple had three children. After publication of “The Heritage of the Desert,” the family moved to Altadena, California. Each year Grey spent time traveling in the west and fishing in the Pacific. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack on October 23, 1939. By the time of his death, he had written almost ninety books. Most of his books were Westerns, but he also wrote nine books that had a fishing theme. Grey also published many short stories, a biography of the young George Washington, and several stories for children. |
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Creator |
Shoff's Tackle Company (Kent, Washington) |
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Date of Original |
1895-1939 |
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Collection |
National Road Zane Grey |
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Source |
H 33685 |
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Format |
Object; Picture; Color photograph |
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Extent |
14.7 cm x 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm |
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Submitting Institution |
Ohio History Connection |
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Rights |
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information |
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Type |
StillImage |
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File Name |
H33685.tif |
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Image Height |
2597 |
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Image Width |
3896 |
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File Size |
30366656 Bytes |
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