Tintype of young woman in striped dress
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Object Details
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Description
- A black-and-white tintype of a young woman in a striped dress. In this half-length portrait, the woman is sitting, facing the camera, with her proper right arm crossed at her waist and her proper left arm resting in her lap. She is wearing a black scarf around her neck pinned with a brooch. Her hair is in an updo. She is wearing drop earrings and has several rings on her right hand. There are no markings on verso.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Late 1860s
- Object number
- 2014.37.22.5
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- tintypes
- portraits
- Medium
- collodion and silver on iron with lacquer
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 3/4 × 2 in. (7 × 5.1 cm)
- Place captured
- United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Photography
- Women
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.37.22.5
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5775cd2b8-8ca5-4cf7-bdfb-1577de6aa93c
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