Historic Paddle Photo: 1907 - With Gun and Guide

Here are some more photos of paddles and canoes taken from the 1907 publication of With Gun and Guide by Thomas Martindale.

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The guide on the far left is holding up a beast of a paddle - no doubt for stand up paddling...

The well-dressed "Sports" pose with their paddles in the bow. The figure on the left seems to have a paddle with a small bobble grip while the gentleman on the right has a more flattened, Northwoods style handle.

The scene is similar to a sketch made nearly a quarter century earlier in Thomas Sedgwick Steele's 1882 publication, Canoe and camera : a two hundred mile tour through the Maine forests.

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