Monkey: Vintage Photograph Mondays

This is a Wallace Nutting print from 1915 taken at Paul Revere's home in Massachusetts. Nutting largely photographed pastoral country scenes, but also period interiors such as this one. All are hand colored photographic prints, but mass produced. Each print has a studio number written on the back – this is #3580 which seems to be a variation of this one from the Wallace Nutting Library site. It seems to be a fairly extensive site of his work if you're patient enough for it to load. From the site:

Wallace Nutting started taking pictures in 1899 while on long bicycle rides in the countryside. In 1904 he opened the Wallace Nutting Art Prints Studio on East 23rd Street in New York. After a year he moved his business to a farm in Southbury, CT. He called this place "Nuttinghame". In 1912 he moved the photography studio to Framingham, MA. A home he called, "Nuttingholme". In the peak of his business he employed about two-hundred colorist. Only a few of whom were authorized to title and sign his photographs. In fact, Wallace Nutting signed very few of the pictures he sold. Because of the sheer number sold, ten millions by his own account, It would have been difficult in light of ill health and his interest in publishing and furniture making for him to sign them all. This accounts for the various signature styles that can be found. Collectors have learned to recognize an authorized signature as well as Wallace Nutting's own. Signature styles can date a picture and the combination of other elements can authenticate a signature.

Seems that mine was not signed by Nutting himself.