Alice C. Nelson Cyanotype Photo Album

Creator

Alice C. Nelson

Identifier

ELIBR0251

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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)."

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PDF, 12 pages, photos and handwriting

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