safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Mitchell, Carleton
MARTINIQUE: St. Pierre
Circa 1947
2.25 x 2.25 x 0

Safety negative; woman holding bottle and glass, mimicking pouring motion; both bottle and glass have been melted into deformed shapes; caption under this photo in "Islands to Windward" reads "The Musee Volcanologique at St. Pierre contains numerous relics of the eruption of Mont Pelee in 1902. This bottle and glass testify to the great heat."; Martinique; handwritten on original envelope "1382". Photographed by Carleton Mitchell. Information taken from Mitchell's "Islands to Windward: Cruising the Caribbees"; p. 80.

1996.31.1290