In the death chair
notes: label: Description
content: This is a color picture postcard that has been addressed and mailed. The image depicts a photographer underneath a dark cloth and behind a mounted large format view camera. The photographer is holding up the index finger of his left hand while the right hand is holding what might be a cable release. (No cable is actuall visible -- just a round object in his hand.) A child is sitting in a cross chair in front of the camera, and the child's head is stabilized by a head brace/clamp.
label: Description
content: The name "Paul" has been inscribed to the left of the photographer's head.
label: Description
content: Text at the bottom of the postcard reads: In the death chair.
label: Description
content: The back of the postcard contains a postmark indicating that it was mailed from Manchyester, New Hampshire on December 26, 1907 at 2:00 pm. A postage cancellation mark is running across a green Franklin one cent postage stamp. The postcard is addressed to Mr. P. Jack (?).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Portraits
label: Subject
content: Mail
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Wayne Hill Photographica Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0066.093
label: accession number
content: 2016.0066
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0066.0093
objectType: label: Object Name
content: picture postcard
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 7/16 in x 5 1/2 in; 8.72998 cm x 13.97 cm