Details
Creator Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer.
Contributor Horning, Lewis, photographer.
Horning, Lewis, photographer.
Title [Unidentified young African American woman] [graphic] / Parlor Galleries, No. 523 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia. L. Horning, Operator.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1881
Date [ca. 1881]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Full-length portrait of a young African American woman standing and resting her left hand on the balustrade behind her. She wears her hair tied behind her head and is attired in a fur cap and a long-sleeved dress which has large, decorative buttons that are placed in the middle and run the length of the dress flanked on either side with pleated ruffles with two rows of ruffles around the base of the skirt. In the right is a table covered in a tablecloth and a drape which hangs down.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's imprint including vignette and business advertisement stamped on verso.
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 Galleries operated at 523 South 9th Street from 1876 to 1885.
Subject African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Clothing and dress.
Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1880-1890.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Cartes-de-visite -- 1880-1890.
Portrait photographs -- 1880-1890.
Illustrator Horning, Lewis, photographer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits – photographer – Parlor [P.9900.12]
Accession number P.9900.12