An Evening Express reporter captured this photograph of “Peanut,” a captive deer, performing a stunt by taking a cigarette from a reporter’s mouth. The image appeared in the Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald on June 26, 1938, as part of an article titled “Fish and Game Department Liberates Captive Deer in Sanctuary.” The article featured a collage of five photographs chronicling Peanut’s life, from his early days as a fawn in the sanctuary to his release into the wild.

Along with Peanut, the State Fish and Game Department transported three additional deer orphaned to Greenville in specially constructed crates and carried them by boat 22 miles up the lake to release them in a remote wildlife sanctuary inaccessible by road.