Details
Title [Unidentified African American woman] [graphic] / Tyson.
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Three-quarter length portrait of a young woman wearing her hair parted in the middle and tied behind her head with long curly bangs and attired in a shirtwaist with buttons down the bodice and a long skirt. She sits facing slightly left with her left arm resting on the chair's armrest, which is decorated with a patterned fabric and fringe. Her right hand rests on her lap.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
Possibly by Philadelphia photographer Isaac G. Tyson.
Slightly discolored and faded.
Purchase 2000.
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.
Subject African American women -- Portraits.
African American women -- Clothing & dress.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Cartes-de-visite -- 1880-1890.
Portrait photographs -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - photographer - Tyson [P.9853.1]
Accession number P.9853.1