Vi - Chip Ormsby - Mother on Main St. in Lake Placid, N.Y. in Front of Blanche's Gift Shoppe

Name/Title

Vi - Chip Ormsby - Mother on Main St. in Lake Placid, N.Y. in Front of Blanche's Gift Shoppe

Entry/Object ID

2024.24.16

Description

Black-and-White photograph of two women and a boy standing in downtown Lake Placid. Handwritten caption on front reads, "Vi - Chip Ormsby - Mother on Main St. in Lake Placid, N.Y. in Front of Blanche's Gift Shoppe. Aug. 1951." Print has decorative scalloped edges. Note: The full names of the women "Vi" and "Dot" in these photographs are not known. It appears that the women were patients at least three different sanatoria, including the New York State Hospital for Incipient Tuberculosis.

Photograph Details

Subject Place

Village

Lake Placid

State/Province

New York

Country

United States of America

Made/Created

Date made

Aug 1951

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Photograph, Black-and-White

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

Vacations, Tourism, Downtown districts

Dimensions

Height

5-3/4 in

Width

3-3/4 in