Tip Top House, Mt. Washington N.H.

Photograph

Museum of the White Mountains

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

MWM2017.0001.0002

Description

Glass stereoview transparency. A group of men and women sit and stand in front of the Tip Top House on Mount Washington. Several people are sitting on the roof of the building. Image is faded and there are two cracks across the left-hand side of the transparency. Printed on the glass in gold lettering: on the left: "F. White, manufacturer of Stereoscopic Views, Lancaster, N.H."; on the bottom "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859 by Luther White, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Vermont"; and on the right: "TIP TOP HOUSE, Mt. Washington N.H." The photographer, Franklin White, 1813-1870, of Lancaster, NH issued his stereoscopic views on glass slides. He worked with his brother Luther White of Montpelier, VT, and was a contemporary of John P. Soule, Franklin Gage, and a mentor for the Kilburn Brothers. The slide has been scanned twice in order to capture the detail of the transparency.

Acquisition

Accession

MWM2017.0001

Source or Donor

Rumney Historical Society

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist

White, Franklin

Date made

1859 - 1859

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Transparency

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Men, Women, Buildings, Mountains

Search Terms

Washington, Mount (Coos county, New Hampshire : mountain), Tip-Top House (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Summits

Dimensions

Height

3-1/4 in

Width

6-3/4 in

Dimension Notes

inches

General Notes

Note

Original or Copy: Original Status Date: 2017-07-27 Scan ID#: WM201700003, WM201700004 UDF03: NHHN EXPORT