[Buildings scaling the side of a mountain]

[Buildings scaling the side of a mountain]

Photograph

A. Thomas Nelson

Maker
American, active ca. 1910s–1950s

[Buildings scaling the side of a mountain]

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


ca. 1930
Gelatin silver prints
Overall: 6 7/8 × 11 in. (17.5 × 28 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1978.1292.0091i
Inscriptions Typed in ink on slip of paper placed behind photograph: Taken by someone, some place, about 1930. A. Thomas Nelson may have developed the prints for a friend and Mrs. Nelson save a print to put with others of it's kind. What seemed to be snow in the mountains turned out to be white buildings and tents.

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