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[Studio group portrait depicting African American men wearing modish attire and in a posed scene] [graphic].
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Title
[Studio group portrait depicting African American men wearing modish attire and in a posed scene] [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 three men, one seated and two standing in an interior setting. The seated man is in the center of the scene. He looks to a man standing in the left of the image. He slightly points up with his right hand and holds his light-colored hat on his right leg. His left leg is crossed over his right knee. The man in the left, slightly hunches over and writes in a small notebook held in his hand. In the right, another man stands and watches the interaction posed as a conversation. All the men wear suits and the two men standing also wear hats, a light-colored fedora (man in left) and a dark-colored derby (man in right).
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.2024.48.1]
Subject
African American men -- United States.
African American men -- Clothing & dress -- United States.
Conversation.
Notebooks.
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.2024.48.2]
Accession number
P.2024.48.2
In Collections
African American History Photographs
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1901-1980
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