Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Tramway, New Hampshire
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.059
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- circa 1940
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, Franconia Notch, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of tramway car suspended from cable, on left side of a tramway tower. Photograph is adhered to larger piece of brown paper, creating a 0.1" border. Brown paper is adhered to wheat-colored mat. Titled in brown ink below photograph, at left, "Tramway, New Hampshire". Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original brown paper on back of frame, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within a triangle in bottom right corner.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-2.8 W-2 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
The Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway, completed in 1938, was the first passenger aerial tramway in North America. - Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Cannon Mountain, Aerial tramways
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