Print, Photographic
- Title:
- The Flume Franconia Notch
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.064
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1924
- Description:
- Hand-painted photograph of The Flume, Franconia Notch, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Oil and watercolor on black and white print. View of The Flume gorge looking upstream; wooden walkway on left; blue sky with white and pink clouds, reflected in river. Photograph is adhered to depressed area on wheat-colored mat. Titled "The Flume Franconia Notch" in brown ink below photograph, left. Signed "Sawyer" in brown ink below photograph, right. Framed. Original backing paper not present. Corrugated archival board backing. One of five prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-13.2 W-10.3 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
Pages from the October 7, 1924 Boston Herald were used as filler when this photograph was originally framed. They were found when the frame was re-backed prior to acquisition by NHHS. - Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Flume, Franconia Notch, Gorges
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