Marshall Sylvia Amateur Snapshot Collection
name: label: Printmaker
content: Brown Photo Service, Minneapolis, Minn.
label: Collector
content: Sylvia, Marshall
label: Printmaker
content: La Crosse Film Service (La Crosse, Wis.)
place: label: Place
content: Wisconsin -- photographs -- 1930-1940
label: Place
content: Minnesota -- photographs -- 1930-1940
label: Place
content: Temperance River -- 1930-1940
label: Place
content: Gooseberry Falls -- photographs -- 1930-1940
topic: label: Topic
content: Weddings
label: Topic
content: Automobiles -- 1930-1940
label: Topic
content: Portraits -- Men -- 1930-1940
label: Topic
content: Lighthouses -- Photographs -- 1930-1940
label: Topic
content: Masquerades -- Photographs -- 1930-1940
label: Topic
content: Entertaining -- Photographs -- 1930-1940
label: Topic
content: Parties -- 1930-1940
label: Topic
content: Waterfalls -- Photographs -- 1930-1940
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Marshall Sylvia, 1988.
creator: label: Printmaker
content: Brown Photo Service, Minneapolis, Minn.
label: Collector
content: Sylvia, Marshall
label: Printmaker
content: La Crosse Film Service (La Crosse, Wis.)
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content: Marshall Sylvia Amateur Snapshot Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: One folder of 74 black and white photoprints mostly of subjects and localities throughout Minnesota.
bioghist: label: Historical
content: As the donor did not supply identification with the photographs, nothing is known about them except for captions and marks on the backs of the prints.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 74 Items (1 folder including photoprints)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936-1937
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0319
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Snapshots
label: Type
content: Vernacular photographs
label: Type
content: Hand coloring
label: Type
content: Landscapes (representations)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged topically.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David Haberstich, 1990.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1930-1940
label: Genre/Form
content: Snapshots
label: Genre/Form
content: Vernacular photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Hand coloring
label: Genre/Form
content: Landscapes (representations)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains 74 unmounted silver gelatin photoprints.  Sizes range from typical amateur rollfilm snapshots up to 5" x 7" enlargements.  A typical range of snapshot subjects is included, such as a wedding group, informal portraits, including people with automobiles, landscapes and waterfalls (including the Temperance River and Gooseberry Falls), the Split Rock Lighthouse, and a costume party.  Seven prints have been hand colored.  Some prints are identified in pencil on the verso.  The dates September 28, 1936 and September 21, 1937 are included, and several prints are identified as processed by Brown Photo Service, Minneapolis, Minn., and La Crosse Film Service ("Nature Tone Prints"), La Cross, Wis., so it is assumed that most of the subjects are in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  One picture of an infant is marked "Michael Shaw Ohme 4 mo."