Print, Photographic
- Title:
- Mount Lafayette
- Object Name:
- Print, Photographic
- Object ID:
- 2022.007.091
- Creator:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH
- Date:
- 1940-1950
- Description:
- Photograph of Mount Lafayette and Gale River, NH, by Charles H. Sawyer (1868-1954), Concord, NH. Black and white print, uncolored. View of Gale River in foreground, trees on each side, and Mount Lafayette in distance. Signed "Sawyer" in black ink on photograph, lower right. No mat. Framed. Original brown backing paper, imprinted "The Sawyer Pictures / Concord, N. H." within triangle in bottom right corner; "75¢" in pencil in the triangle. Large printed brown paper label adhered to backing paper: "MOUNT LAFAYETTE / 5,269 feet in altitude, the highest point in the charming and / picturesque Franconia Range, was first known as Great Haystack; / but at the time of Lafayette's visit to the United States in 1824, the / name was changed in his honor. / THE SAWYER PICTURES. / Concord, New Hampshire." Brass hanger. One of six prints from same negative.
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- H-5.8 W-4.5 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 260 framed Charles H. Sawyer photographs collected and donated by John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales.
- Credit Line:
- John Douglas Peters and Christine Kay Consales: Charles Henry Sawyer Collection of Hand-Painted Photographs
- People:
- Sawyer, Charles H. (1868-1954)
- Subjects:
- Mount Lafayette, Gale River
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