Photographs
The Photographs series (Box 19) contains separate subseries of prints and negatives. The photographs cover the period from about 1930 to 1965.
The prints are generally photos sent to Van Coevering by correspondents or agencies to support "big fish" or "big buck" claims or to document other events. They have been removed from the Reference file series. The negatives were apparently taken by Van Coevering to illustrate his Detroit Free Press columns. The two subseries are arranged for convenience into similar topical groups, but there is no overlap between the two: there are no prints in the prints subseries for any of the negatives and no negatives in the negatives subseries for any of the prints.
The topics best documented visually in this series include hunting, fishing, related activities such as fly-tying and trapshooting, conservation activities such as fisheries research and forest fire-fighting, and Michigan scenery.