Details
Creator Schreiber & Sons, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Unidentified African American man] [graphic] / Schreiber & Son Photographers, 818 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date [ca. 1867]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen om card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Three-quarter length portrait of a bearded Black man attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a sack coat, and light-colored pants. He sits on a wooden chair facing slightly left with his right hand tucked into his coat.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of unidentified portraits. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note Schreiber & Son(s), a Philadelphia partnership of George Schreiber, and his several sons, specialists in portraiture and animal portraiture, were in business from 1857 until 1900, operating at 818 Arch Street from 1867 until 1879.
Subject African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - photographer - Schreiber & Sons [8313.F.10b]
Accession number 8313.F.10b