Name/Title
Saranac Lake 1943: 124 Franklin, Savbys, Gerald & Vic, Laurie & Berwind, #1 Riverside Drive, Auntie, Uncle V., M. J.Entry/Object ID
2023.62.3Description
Color 16mm film reel of home movies from Gretchen Senn Wamsganz, 1943. Handwritten note on canister reads, "Saranac Lake 1943: 124 Franklin, Savbys, Gerald & Vic, Laurie & Berwind, #1 Riverside Drive, Auntie, Uncle V., M. J." Footage shows the cottage at 24 Franklin Avenue [now 100] in the snow, an unidentified woman in a fur coat, an elevated view of downtown, Church Street, and Helen Hill (possibly taken from atop Hotel Saranac), an unidentified woman in a kitchen, a girl in bed with a woman and a man seated next to her, a woman in a fur coat and fancy hat walking to post a letter on Franklin Avenue, houses along Helen Street and Franklin Avenue, a group of people with picnic supplies in the yard of a house (possibly on Franklin Avenue), a groups of people in dress clothes outside of the second St. John's in the Wilderness Church, Francis Trudeau outside of St. John's, children in costumes playing with toy guns, the Lake Flower bridge and buildings and cars along River and Main Streets, a woman leaving 1 Riverside Drive [4 Riverside Drive], an anniversary party, and more footage on Riverside Drive.Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Film, Motion PictureNomenclature Primary Object Term
Film, PhotographicNomenclature Sub-Class
Photographic MediaNomenclature Class
Photographic T&ENomenclature Category
Category 06: Tools & Equipment for CommunicationLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Children, Childhood & youth, Bodies of water, Villages, Downtown districts, Families, Churches
