Details
Title [African American woman nursing a baby on a porch in the presence of a man] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Stereograph depicting an African American mother seated on the porch steps and nursing her baby. The woman, wearing her hair tied up in braids and attired in a polka-dotted shirt and a checked skirt, cradles an infant on her lap as it suckles on her breast. Seated in the right, the African American man, attired in a hat, a long-sleeved white shirt, a ring, and pants, looks over at the mother and child. On the porch is a wooden chair beside the closed door.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Manuscript note on verso: Herr Klebenice?
Gift of David Long, 2002.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject African American families.
African American infants.
African American men.
African American mothers.
African American women.
African Americans.
Breast feeding.
Porches -- United States.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Stereographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Genre [P.2002.8.5]
Accession number P.2002.8.5