Artist John Bullock, American, 1854-1939
Title
  • Old Lock at Ste. Marie, Canada, Used by Trappers 100 Years Ago
Date 1900
Medium gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 3 9/16 × 4 9/16 inches (9 × 11.6 cm)
Mount: 8 5/8 × 9 3/8 inches (21.9 × 23.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Warren and Margot Coville
Accession Number 1998.76
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Marks Stamp, in brown ink, lower center, verso: FROM JOHN G. BULLOCK | 6439 GREENE STREET, | GERMANTOWN, PA.
Inscriptions Inscribed, on mount, in brown pen and ink, lower edge: Old Lock at St. Marie, Canada, used by trappers one hund | red years ago for taking up loaded canoes Draft 2 1/2 ft. / 38 ft. long x 8 ft. 9 in. wide. List-of-9ft. 1900
Inscribed, on mount, in pencil, lower left, verso: B-199
Inscribed, on mount, in pencil, lower right, verso: WJC 1353
(Swann Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
1992-1998, Warren and Margot Coville (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1998-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)