Transparency, Sheet-film

Title:

Lake Chocorua Mt. Chocorua, N.H.

Object Name:

Transparency, Sheet-film

Object ID:

2008.040.01

Creator:

Helms Products, Inc.

Place of Origin:

Grand Rapids, MI

Date:

circa 1956

Description:

Illuminated photograph (backlit color film transparency), Mount Chocorua in autumn, framed, c. 1956. Color image of Mount Chocorua on right, Lake Chocorua in center, white birch trees and stone wall in right foreground, and field and fall foliage on left. Transparency has woven texture on front and is smooth on reverse. "�" printed on front, lower right. In brown and gold painted and varnished pine frame. White painted metal housing attached to back of frame. Within housing is one fluorescent lightbulb, wiring, and cylindrical starter. Housing is stamped (impressed) on exterior: "HELMSCENE / GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. / PATENT No. 2,637,132 / OTHER PATENTS APPLIED FOR". Also stamped in blue ink: "No. 114 LAKE CHOCORUA MT. CHOCORUA, N. H." Printed gold paper label adhered to metal: "HELMS PRODUCTS, INC. / HELMSCENE / PAT. APPLIED FOR / GRAND RAPIDS, MICH." Printed blue paper label adhered to metal: "FROM / HILL WELCH CO. / LYNN, MASS.", with handwritten ink number, "306W114 / D1AP". Electrical switch on frame, lower right. Electrical cord extends from right side of metal housing.

Material:

Metal
Wood
Plastic

Dimensions:

H-19.5 W-27.2 inches

Provenance:

This picture was a housewarming gift from residents of Ossipee, NH, to Arthur Milton Brown (d. 1962) and Lucinda (Lou) Crosby Brown (d. 1958) when they built their new home in the town in 1956. After Arthur's death in 1962, his niece, Jean Crosby Cayford (mother of the donor), took the picture to her camp on Lake Ossipee in Freedom, NH, which she and her husband Jim had purchased from the Browns in 1956. Jean kept the picture hanging in her bedroom at the camp until the donor inherited the house and its contents in 1992.

Credit Line:

Gift of Jane C. Nylander

Subjects:

Mount Chocorua, Chocorua Lake, Autumn, Fall