[Winter scene of a train driving through Pennsylvania]
Photograph
[Winter scene of a train driving through Pennsylvania]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
1921 - 1926
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 5/8 × 4 1/4 in. (6.6 × 10.8 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0053a
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: En route to Wilkes-Barre, Pa. from Phila. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson 1921 to 1926 from a speeding train. Taken with his 1A Speed Camera (really his present to me, his wife) - with a focal plane shutter taking a picture up to 1.000 of a second. The camera was equipped with a 4.5 lens. Mr. Nelson was on a trip to get pictures for the Board of Home Missions & Church Extension of the M.E. Church at 17th & Arch Streets, Phila. For complete information see the picture of the home of the president of Drew Theological Seminary, taken at greater distance, with shrubbery and iris in the foreground.
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