Name/Title
Photograph, CabinetEntry/Object ID
1950.097.0037Description
Photo of Mrs. Dave P. Hughes of Carbon.
Update 2008: Black and white photo affixed to 2 1/4 x 6 3/8, ivory colored matboard. Print has oval portrait inside white border. Photo shows a woman with dark hair in a curly updo with a crimped hair decoration going across top back edge of hair at crown. She has dark eyes. She is wearing a high neck blouse with a black neck tie that is narrow at neck edge, pinned at neck front and spreads at bottom edges at bodice front. There is black soutache braid in decorative design on each side of center front extending down from shoulders . She is wearing long dangling earrings. Dress itself is light colored.
Good condition. Photo has scratches, spots, blemishes from its negative. Actual photo surface is soiled on all edges with unknown speck of residue at bottom edge. Black ink mark at top. Fingerprints at bottom and sides. Minor scratches and flecks in emulsion surface.
Written in blue ink on back: Mrs. Dan P. Hughes, Carbon, Wyo. Given by Doc Culleton. Carbon County Museum.
A tiny white sticker affixed on back has : Carbon, written in pencil.
Printed on back in golden gilt with decorative border: C.R. Savage. Underneath in a semicircle arch: DESERET. Underneath this is an unclothed stick type drawing sitting on a camera with lens showing under its legs, holding a pallette in left hand an a sign in right that reads :Always first prize." A shield showing 1860 and a beehive is propped against back of box camera with a banner reading: Pioneer Art Gallery underneath etching. Under this design is printed: East Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Portrait and Landscape Photographer. Views of all points of entered in the Great West.
Copy 5 x 7 reprint of original. All original imperfections show on copy. Back surface has an irregular discoloration line that goes top to bottom on left side. A small square white sticker is affixed to bottom back of photo with Mr. Dave P. Hughes, Carbon written in black in on it. Very light discoloration is on all photo back edges, shadow appearance.
Update February 2011: One black & white copy print.
Written on back in black ink: "Mrs. Dave P. Hughes - Carbon, Wyo. Given by Doc Culleton"
Good condition. Creased. Size 5 x 6 7/8"Collection
Photograph Collection