View looking east across Iowa River. This photograph was produced with infrared film. Foliage reflects infrared radiation, so appears white, while water absorbs infrared radiation, and appears dark.
Alva was the son of Timothy W. Townsend, who operated a photograph gallery in Iowa City 1866-1880, and again beginning in 1890. Alva worked in his father's studio beginning at age 17, around 1890. This information is from Annals of Iowa, and the New…
