| Contributor |
Graves, C.H. -1943, copyright holder. |
| Title |
A free lunch. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia: C.H. Graves |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1898 |
| Date |
1898 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : gelatin silver 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 earrings and a white dress with puffed upper sleeves, cradles an infant on her lap and holds
her breast to the baby as it suckles. A wooden chair is visible on the porch in the background.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1898 by C. H. Graves. |
|
Warped grey mount with rounded corners. |
|
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 infants. |
|
African American mothers. |
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African American women. |
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Breast feeding. |
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Porches -- United States. |
| Genre |
Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900. |
|
Stereographs -- 1890-1900. |
| Printer |
Graves, C.H. (Carleton H.), -1943, copyright holder. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Graves - Portraits & Genre [P.2002.8.3] |
| Accession number |
P.2002.8.3 |
