Details
Creator Reimer, Benjamin F., approximately 1826-1899, photographer.
Contributor Harmony Burial Ground (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Title Amy Smith, April 17, 1876. [graphic] / Photographed by B.F. Reimer, nos. 613, 615 and 617 Nth. Second St. Philad'a.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1878
Date [1876]
Physical Description 1 photograph: albumen on card mount; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte-de-visite format)
Description Half-length portrait of Smith, a young African American woman, posed to the left. She looks forward toward the viewer. She wears a plaid-patterned garment, a white, upturned collar, and a bowtie-like ribbon at her neck. Her hair is pulled back and she wears a hair band. Smith, born in Virginia resided in Philadelphia by 1870. Smith was buried at the Harmony Burial Ground, the burial ground of the African Friends to Harmony at 41st and Chestnut Street in West Philadephia. African Friends, founded in 1826, sought to provide a cemetery for low-income African Americans to be interred with dignity and respect. Several of those buried in the cemetery were associated with the Monument Baptist Church or the Mount Pisgah A.M.E. Church. The property was sold in 1910. In 2020, the remains of over 160 burials were transferred to Eden Cemetery.
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount.
Photographer's imprint printed on verso.
Printed on verso: No. [57860]. Duplicated any time if orderd by the original, or by a responsible person.
Manuscript note on verso: died March 23d 1878.
Partially purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program.
RVCDC
Subject Smith, Amy, approximately 1859-1878 -- Portraits
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cartes de visite -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Smith [P.2023.17.1]
Accession number P.2023.17.1

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