Details
Creator Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer.
Title [Emma Louisa Gutekunst as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe"] [graphic] / F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 17 cm (4.25 x 6.5 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description Full-length portrait of Emma Louisa Gutekunst depicted as the Mother Goose character, the old woman who lived in a shoe. She wears her hair in bangs and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white collar and cuffs. She stands inside an oversized shoe and holds a doll in her right hand. A variety of different sized dolls are all over the shoe and also on the floor, including two African American dolls.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from active dates of the photographer at the address and depicted age of the sitter.
Photographer's imprint on verso: F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia.
Manuscript note written on verso: F. Gutekunst's daughter as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe" (photo he gave me, together with childhood picture of Adelina Patti).
Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Subject Gutekunst, Emma Louisa, 1868-1945 -- Portraits.
Mother Goose.
Black dolls.
Dolls.
Girls -- Portraits.
Shoes.
African American history.
Philadelphia artists.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret Collection – Photos [P.2017.120.140]
Accession number P.2017.120.140