[Pekingese dog]
Photograph
[Pekingese dog]
From the album [Snapshots from travels in the United States and Canada]
ca. 1930
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 3 1/4 × 2 7/16 in. (8.2 × 6.2 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0089c
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: "Things of interest". Tiny dog, taken from straight above by Harwood Steiger of New York about 1930. A. Thomas Nelson developed the film and made prints, as a friend.
Steiger was an artist and mural decorator who studied and exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts, Phila., Pa. There is a picture of Steiger with still life in foreground, showing an immense banana close to the camera which amused Steiger much: also painting of him with his summer class in painting in Lincoln Park, N.Y. before he had his classes at Martha's Vineyard. Mrs. Nelson save this print to put with others of it's kind.
Steiger was an artist and mural decorator who studied and exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts, Phila., Pa. There is a picture of Steiger with still life in foreground, showing an immense banana close to the camera which amused Steiger much: also painting of him with his summer class in painting in Lincoln Park, N.Y. before he had his classes at Martha's Vineyard. Mrs. Nelson save this print to put with others of it's kind.
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