
Alice C. Nelson Cyanotype Photo Album
Identifier
ELIBR0251
Files
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Creation Date
3-28-1899
Disciplines
Photography
Description
Photo album serves as example of early photographic cyanotype process. The album cover reads (blue ink handwriting), "Alice C. Nelson from L.H. | Three of our Plainfield Friends. | March 28-1899." Photographs seem to have been compiled retrospectively months before its compilation. They depict three young cats, the interior of a home, a dog named Nero and his "mistress", Barton Lake, Morgan Vermont Lake shore and camp, men and women, and notably "L.H. andAlicia Nelson, June 18, 1898, and "Grandpa Dean Patterson, taken on his birthday, Feb. 28, 1899, Age 80 (school house)."
Physical Description
PDF, 12 pages, photos and handwriting
Recommended Citation
Alice C. Nelson Cyanotype Photo Album, ELIBR-0251. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus. UTRGV Digital Library, retrieved from http://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/acnelsonphotographs