Louisa A. White photograph album [graphic].

Photograph album of portraits of unidentified middle-class African Americans including fourteen men, eleven women, and three babies.

Collection Metadata

Title: Louisa A. White photograph album [graphic].
Subject: African American men -- United States., African American women -- United States., African American infants -- United States.
Description: Photograph album of portraits of unidentified middle-class African Americans including fourteen men, eleven women, and three babies.
Contributor: Fenton, Joseph photographer., Hurn, John W., photographer., Santman, Comly T., photographer., Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer.
Date: ca. 1878
Type: Photograph albums -- 1860-1880., Portrait photographs -- 1860-1880., Albumen prints -- 1860-1880., Tintypes -- 1860-1880., Cartes-de-visite -- 1860-1880.
Format: 1 album (28 photographic prints): 26 albumen on carte-de-visite mount, 2 tintype, some tinted; 14 x 11 cm.(5.5 x 4.25 in)
Identifier: Islandora:LAW01, digitool:129230, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - White [P.9505], P.9505

: Louisa A. White photograph album [graphic].; 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., 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.

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