Surveyors Seated along a Road
Artist
Frederick K. Coulson
(American, 1869–1931)
DateApril 11, 1897
Mediumcyanotype on cream wove paper
Dimensions24.8 x 29.2 cm (sheets), 25.4 x 20.5 x 2.0 cm (bound)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund
Object number2010.271.174
DescriptionPhotograph from an album of 208 cyanotypes on cream wove paper.The two men with tripods seated in front of a stone wall appear to be in the process of surveying the Johnson Farm off Salisbury Street, which was soon to be turned into a planned neighborhood, Bancroft Heights. Frederick Coulson was at the time an architect in training, working as a draftsman in the office of George Clemence, who buildt a number of houses in Bancroft Heights, the first one completed in 1899. The man on the left may be Coulson himself.
–"Frederick Coulson: Blueprints of a Golden Age," by James A. Welu, p.48, plate 27
ProvenanceLee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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Frederick K. Coulson
late 19th–early 20th century
