[View of Lake Erie with a lighthouse and a freighter in the distance]

[View of Lake Erie with a lighthouse and a freighter in the distance]

Photograph

A. Thomas Nelson

Maker
American, active ca. 1910s–1950s

[View of Lake Erie with a lighthouse and a freighter 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
1978.1292.0074d
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: The breakwater at Cleveland, Ohio. Taken by A. Thomas Nelson about 1917 or 1918. The breakwater shows the two lighthouses at the entrance with another where it broadens out and a tug towing a long freighter inside the breakwater. Taken from Edgewater Park on a calm Saturday afternoon. Looking east toward the city.

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