A Frontier Nurse with her patient being ferried across the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River

A Frontier Nurse with her patient being ferried across the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River

Photograph

Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson

Maker
American, 1905–2002

A Frontier Nurse with her patient being ferried across the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River

1937
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in. (19.6 × 24.5 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: 115
Inscribed in pencil on verso, C: A Frontier Nurse with her patient \ being ferried across the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River \ 1937
Stamped on verso, BLC: PHOTOGRAPHY BY \ MARVIN BRECKINRIDGE \ 401 EAST 58TH STREET \ NEW YORK CITY
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