Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1951.162.0404Description
New Telephone at the Nelson home.
Update 2009: Black and white glossy print of Lou and Lillian Nelson looking at different types of telephones on a small table. Lou is dressed in medium suit with white shirt and tie, standing and resting his hands on the table. A service man dressed in jean jacket, shirt and jeans is kneeling behind table an demonstrating a light colored dial phone. A tall wooden wall and dark phone is to left of young man on table and a black table console phone is on table in front of crank phone. Lillian Heath Nelson is sitting in an upholstered chair with a striped towel over it and a tapestry decorated with a winter scene with horses is draped across chair top. Leafy wall paper decorates wall in background .Lillian is wearing a dark dotted swiss dress with broach at neck V. Her dark hair is short and her hands are clasped together in her lap. She is looking to the right toward the table with the phones.
Written on back in red pencil: "New telephone Mr.. & Mrs. Lou J. Nelson."
Stamped in black ink on back: "Woodward Studio. 315 W. Buffalo Rawlins, Wyo."
Good condition with wear on all edges. Tiny stains on surface top left print and large stain and abrasions with lifted pater at backside top edge. There are various scratches in emulsion surface throughout as well as several deep indentions. Accretions on side right and lifting of emulsion on lower bottom right and side right.Collection
Photograph Collection