This pleasing study of an unknown young woman resting before a lake is a warm brown platinum print. The photographer additionally printed it as a bromide print in 1916, probably for exhibition. As identified as a Curtis High School student, the photographer may have taken photographs like this in order to make extra money, as one other print held by this archive of an older unidentified woman carries the following pricing on the print verso: .50¢ each $6. per dozen

Charles Rollins Tucker, 1868-1956.

See our in-depth blog posts with links below: Revealed: C.R. Tucker: Restless Wanderer with a Camera, & Rescued: Dorothy Tucker: For the Love of a Daughter, to learn more.