[View from one lake freighter to another]

[View from one lake freighter to another]

Photograph

A. Thomas Nelson

Maker
American, active ca. 1910s–1950s

[View from one lake freighter to another]

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


ca. 1917
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 2 5/16 × 3 1/4 in. (5.8 × 8.3 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0091e
Inscriptions Written in ink on recto, BC: Cleveland, O.

Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Two lake freighters, taken from one freighter, perhaps on the Cuyahoga River, at least near Clevealnd, Ohio. A. Thomas Nelson may have made the print about 1917 for a friend. Mrs. Nelson saved a print to put with others of it's kind.

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