Representative Les AuCoin smiles with a steelhead trout, standing by the Deschutes River in Oregon. In typed notes about the image, Les AuCoin writes: "On the Deschutes River north of Madras, on a perfect October day, a steelhead trout makes itself a gift to me. It was the first time I had hooked one of these iconic seagoing creatures. A keepsake memory. In the early nineties, shortly after I had left Congress." Based on this note, the photo was probably taken between 1992 and 1995. This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. The original photo remains with the AuCoin family.
Black and white image of three men gathered around a campfire. One man stands at the far side of the fire, near a table with pots and pans. Another sits on a stump at the right of the image, and appears to be feeding the dog at his feet. A third man leans against a bench looking over his shoulder at the camera. A dog noses about beside him, and two fishing poles lean against the front of the bench. A weathered wooden building can be seen in the right background of the image, and debris and clothing are scattered about the ground and on the bench and tables. A fishing creel sits on a makeshift table at the right of the image. Museum records do not identify the men specifically, but this image is one of a number of glass negative plates donated by Thomas Clapshaw.
