Door to Nowhere

Door to Nowhere

Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Door to Nowhere

From Photographic Techniques: Gags I


December 17, 1969
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 8 11/16 in. (15.8 × 22.1 cm)
Paper: 7 1/16 × 9 1/8 in. (18 × 23.1 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
Inscriptions Printed in image on recto, LC: (ADVANCE FOR USE WITH PMS STORY OF FRIDAY, DEC. 19 BY ED TUNSTALL) \ (NU1) PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Dec. 17 -- DOOR TO NOWHERE -- Shirley Carpenter \ hangs a Christmas wreath on the front door that stands on the foundation \ where her new Pass Christian, Miss., home stood before it was leveled \ by Hurricane Camille in mid-August. Mrs. Carpenter, who now lives with \ her family in a trailer nearby, is using the desolate setting for a \ Christmas card to send to friends. (AP WIREPHOTO) (jrt30800EJT.stf) \ [illegible, cut off]
Inscribed in black marker on verso, RC: Weather
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