| Contributor |
Fenton, Joseph, photographer. |
|
Hurn, John W., photographer. |
|
Santman, Comly T., photographer. |
|
Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer. |
| Title |
[Louisa A. White photograph album] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1878 |
| Date |
[ca. 1878] |
| Physical Description |
28 photographs in 1 album : 26 albumen on carte-de-visite mount, 2 tintype, some tinted ; mount 14 x 11 cm (5.5 x 4.25 in) |
| Description |
Photograph album of portraits of unidentified middle-class African Americans including fourteen men, eleven women, and three
babies.
|
|
Various photographers from New York, Rhode Island, and Philadelphia. Philadelphia photographers include J. Fenton, J.W. Hurn,
Parlor Galleries, and Comly T. Santman.
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Date from manuscript inscription written on inside cover: Louisa A. White, Wishes & Regards of Anna Gibbs Philadelphia, With
the best, Christmas 1878.
|
|
Missing front cover, back cover, spine, and back pages. |
|
Gold gilded pages, edges cut with leaf design. |
|
Purchase 1996. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
|
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Subject |
African American infants -- Portraits. |
|
African American men -- Portraits. |
|
African American women -- Portraits. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1880. |
|
Cartes-de-visite -- 1860-1880. |
|
Photograph albums -- 1860-1880. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1880. |
|
Tintypes -- 1860-1880. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums [P.9505] |
| Accession number |
P.9505 |
