Details
Creator Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer.
Title [Unidentified African American man with a dog] [graphic] / Parlor Gallery, 523 Sth. Ninth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 16 x 11 cm (6.25 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description Full-length portrait of an African American man, wearing a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt, a waistcoat, a jacket, a riding coat, and pants, standing in front of a backdrop adorned with ornate decorative columns. He holds a walking stick, crosses his right leg over his left, and leans on a balustrade on which a top hat rests. A white and brown spaniel dog lies in the foreground.
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on verso.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Purchase 2001.
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 Parlor Gallery, operated by Lewis Horning, was in business at 523 South 9th Street from around 1876 until 1885.
Subject African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1870-1880.
Dogs.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cabinet photographs -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cabinet card portraits - photographer - Parlor [P.9981.7]
Accession number P.9981.7