[Street scene in Cleveland Public Square including trolly cars and The May Co. department store]
Photograph
[Street scene in Cleveland Public Square including trolly cars and The May Co. department store]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
1917 - 1918
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 1/2 × 4 3/16 in. (6.4 × 10.6 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0072c
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Cleveland Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio, where the saft on the monument standing near the south side of the square can be seen with it's shaft outlined against the sky of famous Euclid Ave. Directly across but to the right in the picutre can be seen the white department store, The May Co., the largest in (either) the city or the state. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson about 1918.
It was at the Herold Bros. Co., 62 right of The May Co. that my mother, Mrs. Grant S. Price, and later my husband Mr. A. Thomas Nelson purchased my thimbles and embroidery scissors. They handled only the best of cutlery. My mother had purchased a gold band thimble and embroidery scissors for me which I had used for years when they were apparently stolen by someone in a strange group. Later Mr. Nelson replaced them with a small gold thimble and gold handled embroidery scissors.
Years later, in New York City, when he (A.T.) was ill, I had occasion to take the scissors to the hospital with me one evening, and on the way out dropped and spilled a smal bottle of alcohol in the corridor of the hospital, thus soaking and almost ruining the tiny leather sheath containing the scissors. The silver embedded lettering was much damaged whereas all had been perfect before that.
Old Stone Church, one of the oldest if not the oldest in the city and very famous, is out of sight on Superior Ave., and near the lower right corner if not showed in this print. (For location only.)
It was at the Herold Bros. Co., 62 right of The May Co. that my mother, Mrs. Grant S. Price, and later my husband Mr. A. Thomas Nelson purchased my thimbles and embroidery scissors. They handled only the best of cutlery. My mother had purchased a gold band thimble and embroidery scissors for me which I had used for years when they were apparently stolen by someone in a strange group. Later Mr. Nelson replaced them with a small gold thimble and gold handled embroidery scissors.
Years later, in New York City, when he (A.T.) was ill, I had occasion to take the scissors to the hospital with me one evening, and on the way out dropped and spilled a smal bottle of alcohol in the corridor of the hospital, thus soaking and almost ruining the tiny leather sheath containing the scissors. The silver embedded lettering was much damaged whereas all had been perfect before that.
Old Stone Church, one of the oldest if not the oldest in the city and very famous, is out of sight on Superior Ave., and near the lower right corner if not showed in this print. (For location only.)
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