Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1948.034.0112Description
Sepia print. Snapshot. Mounted on tan matboard. Image of five women , one man & a child standing in the open doorway of a frame building. Two windows on either side of doors & a wooden boardwalk out front. Sloping (to left) dirt street in foreground. Post at front edge of boardwalk at center with stack of fabric bolts piled against it. Sign on front of building over doors: "Millinery, Notions, Dressmaking, & ETC" 400 Block of Front St.
Written on back: [pencil] "assorted scenes of Rawlins - assorted" [black ink] "1-cu" [blue ink] "left to right Ed Cannon - Mrs Louis Schalk" [black ink] "Front Street store in 1887. to the left are E. L. Cannon E Cannon Jr. Mrs Schalk & Mattie Cannon" [pencil] "Photograph about 1884" [red pencil] "copied by State" [black ink] "and mounted" [pencil] "page 28, pix 5 15 x 3 1/2" [light blue ink] "5".
Mounted on acidic matboard. Cut down from original size - edges rough & uneven. Back soiled, corner damage. Accretion on emulsion at top center; rest of surface soiled & scratched. Upper right corner of image bent & torn.Collection
Photograph Collection