a handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads simply "Watching his prey." This is one of several photographs featuring rattlesnakes in the Album.
The back of the photograph shows a partial printing of a postcard from which the photograph has cut. There is no reference as to which part of Album page 25 this photograph was originally placed, but is presumed to be middle left photograph...
Hand written caption on the reverse of the picture: "The Devil's Court-house (stunted rhododendron)." This picture appeared in "Our Southern Highlanders" (1921 ed., p. 104) as ". . . . Powerful steep and Laurely . . ."...