[Malcom Swann in Oklahoma]

Description

An elderly man with a full white beard sits in profile on a ladder-back chair in a camp on open prairie. He wears a dark coat and trousers and a broad-brimmed hat, and holds his hands up in front of him around something small that cannot be made out. Behind him a canvas wall tent stands with its flap thrown back. To the right a covered wagon is drawn up with its bows and cover in place; a figure in light-coloured clothing stands at the tailgate among boxes and gear, and canvas or bedding is spread on the ground beside it. Cut grass, scattered sticks and a low fence rail lie in the foreground; the horizon is flat and empty. The print is roughly square, mounted on a cream card with a blind-embossed scalloped border inside two ruled lines; the mount is torn away at the upper right corner.

People

• 1Malcom Swann, 1828-1910
  Supplied with the item; the source of the name is not recorded on the object.

Details

1. 1Malcom Swann sitting next to a wagon examining an item.Recto

Inscriptions

• verso · ink

  Grandpa Swann in Oklahoma. He went with Austin and John Swann, Mr. and Mrs. D.R. Girdner families spent several weeks in Okla. threshing grain for the farmers. Uncle Austin daughters Eva, Minnie and Loveta all drove from Greenville, Tex. to Okla. - eastern section of Okla.