Elephants Head and Gate of Crawford Notch, White Mountains, N.H.

Archive

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Museum of the White Mountains

Name/Title

Elephants Head and Gate of Crawford Notch, White Mountains, N.H.

Entry/Object ID

MWM2010.0001.0240

Scope and Content

Colored image of an evergreen tree-covered mountain from a clearing where there is a road and utility poles. Caption reads, “Elephants Head and Gate of Crawford Notch, White Mountains, N.H.” Back Description: Typical postcard back. Features a handwritten note, postmark, and postage stamp. Transcription: "Dear Unclee, Is this hot weather enough to smite you. It was hot on the mt. today. With love your niece Y." Addressed: Horatio Sanborn West Baldwin, Maine PM: West Baldwin Maine 1908 Sep 24

Collection

Dan Noel Collection

Acquisition

Accession

MWM2010.0001

Source or Donor

Dan Noel

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Dan Noel

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Postcard

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Railroads, Railways, Railroad tracks, Trees, Evergreens, Rocks, Railroad travel, Hills, Clearing of land, Mountains

Search Terms

Elephant Head (Carroll county, New Hampshire : rock), Crawford Notch (New Hampshire : valley), West Baldwin (Cumberland county, Maine : inhabited place), Fabyan House (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Postage Postage Stamps

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1908 - 1908

Archive Notes

Date(s): September 24, 1908 Medium: cardstock Publisher: Detroit Photographic Company

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

3.5" x 5.5"

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Location

Crawford Notch

County

Coös

State/Province

New Hampshire

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status By: Burke, Lindsay Status Date: 2011-12-15 Scan ID#: WM201000479, WM201000480 Other Date: Septemer 23, 1908 UDF03: NHHN EXPORT