| Title |
[Studio group portrait depicting African American women wearing modish attire and posed side by side] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[United States] |
| Date |
[ca. 1915] |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount ; mount 9 x 14 cm (3.5 x 5.5 in.) (post card format) |
| Description |
Real photo postcard depicting the five women, standing, lined in a row, and many with their hand on the shoulder of the woman
next to them. Two of the sitters hold cigars. Four of the women wear similar attire of lightweight fabric, short-sleeve, knee-length
dresses, including one with a drop waist; high crowned, crushable, fedora-like hats; stockings; and short-heeled shoes. Two
of the women also wear puffy bows in their hair. The woman at the end of the row in the right of the image holds her left
hand over her heart. She is attired in an ankle-length work dress with buttons down the skirt. The sitters stand before a
drapery backdrop and folding panel.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Divided back. |
|
Contains Cyko stamp box printed on verso. |
|
Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program. |
|
See related postcard: LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.2] |
| Subject |
African American women -- United States. |
|
African American women -- Clothing & dress -- United States. |
|
Cigars. |
|
African American History |
| Genre |
Photographic postcards -- 1910-1920. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1910-1920. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Portraits - African American [P.2024.48.1] |
| Accession number |
P.2024.48.1 |
