Details
Creator Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer.
Title [Copy photograph of African American woman caregiver with her young white charges] [graphic] / F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St. Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 17 x 11 cm (6.5 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description Copy photograph of a circa 1860 three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman caregiver, seated, and with a white baby on her lap and a young white boy standing to her left. The caregiver has her right hand resting on the head of the baby and her left arm wrapped around his/her waist. The baby wears a medium-colored dress, which their nanny's hand has slightly tugged up. The baby has their left hand in their mouth. The nanny wears her long, wavy dark hair, parted in the center, and pulled away from her face. She is attired in a patterned shirt waist and dark satin skirt with crinoline underneath. The boy to her left wears a dark-colored, mandarin-style jacket and dark pants. All the sitters look straight at the viewer.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date based on type of mount and address of photographer.
Photographer's imprint stamped on mount and verso. Imprint on verso includes decorative insignia composed of an ornamented letter "G" with a coat of arms in its interior. The coat of arms includes a lion and bird.
Inscribed in pencil on verso: 100801.
Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015).
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Subject African American caregivers.
African American women.
Nannies (Children's nurses).
Boys.
Children.
Clothing & dress.
Portrait photographs -- 1880-1890.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Cabinet photographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cabinet card portraits - photo - Gutekunst [P.2016.17.2]
Accession number P.2016.17.2