Man on Telephone

Photograph

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Picnooga

2022.022.017 Recto: Black and white photograph of a man sitting on a wire stool, posing with a telephone.
2022.022.017 Recto

Black and white photograph of a man sitting on a wire stool, posing with a telephone.

Name/Title

Man on Telephone

Entry/Object ID

2022.022.017

Description

Black and white photograph developed on postcard paper of a man posed as if he is on a telephone call. The man is wearing a striped suit with rolled hem trousers. He has white stockings tucked into leather ankle height boots. He is sitting on a stool with twisted wire lege with one elbow perched on a four legged table as he is posed to look as if he is using the candlestick telephone that is placed on top of it. He is sitting in front of one of Brazelton's backdrops that features a painted stone balustrade and fluted column. "Brazelton Chattanooga" is embossed at the bottom right.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Real Photo Postcard

Subject Person or Organization

unknown

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Chattanooga, Tennessee*

Collection

The Brazelton Project Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Horace Brazelton

Role

Photographer

Studio

Brazelton's Studios

Date made

circa 1920

Time Period

20th Century

Copyright

Restrictions

Credit Chattanooga Historical Society Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only