nitrate ? negative

Nitrate ? negative photographed March 1947; view of man, probably Carleton Mitchell, looking at plaque on gatepost at Montpelier House on Nevis (West Indies); plaque reads "ON THIS SITE STOOD/ MONTPELIER HOUSE; WHEREIN/ ON THE 11TH DAY OF MARCH OF 1787/ HORATIO NELSON/ OF IMMORTAL MEMORY/ THEN CAPTAIN OF H.M.S. BOREAS/ WAS MARRIED TO/ FRANCES HERBERT NISBET"; for more views of Nevis see 1996.31.1325-1345; handwritten on original envelope neg. no. "1430" (corresponds to original Mitchell contact); REF: "Islands to Windward"; 1948.