Ferns (fiddleheads)

Photograph

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Wayland Museum

Name/Title

Ferns (fiddleheads)

Entry/Object ID

ph-50-56-n

Description

Ferns (fiddleheads) The fiddlehead resembles the curled ornamentation (called a scroll) on the end of a stringed instrument, such as a fiddle. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond.

Collection

W. H. Folsom Shoebox Collection

Acquisition

Notes

(these were discovered in an old shoe box in the closet off the Stone Room, next to Willie’s shed in 1983)

Made/Created

Artist

Folsom, Wallace Herbert

Lexicon

Search Terms

Folsom, Wallace Herbert, (1884 - 1954) –- Photographer Fiddlehead ferns

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

A-53

Dimensions

Height

2-1/4 in

Width

3-1/4 in

General Notes

Note

[Total 761 negatives from original shoebox of Folsom negatives]