[Lake Erie seen behind a tree with two freighters in the distance]

[Lake Erie seen behind a tree with two freighters in the distance]

Photograph

A. Thomas Nelson

Maker
American, active ca. 1910s–1950s

[Lake Erie seen behind a tree with two freighters in the distance]

From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]


1917 - 1918
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (6.4 × 10.5 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0074a
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Two freighters just outside the breakwater on Lake Erie leaving Cleveland, Ohio. The first freighter (in front of the tree branch) is the longest I ever saw. Taken from Edgewater Park on a calm Saturday afternoon. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson about 1917 to 1918.

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