Details
Creator United States View Company, photographer.
Title [African American family in front of their Pennsylvania residence] [graphic] / United States View Company, Richfield, PA.
Publisher [Richfield, Pa.]
Publisher PA. Richfield. 1890
Date [ca. 1890]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen mounted on cardboard ; image 19 x 25 cm (7.5 x 9.75 in.)
Description Depicts the African American family of four women, two men, and a boy posed in front of their two-story house with a porch, trellis, and picket fence. In the left, an older African American man, wearing white hair, stands behind the picket fence and looks directly at the viewer. A woman, wearing her hair tied up in a bun and attired in a long-sleeved dress with decorative stripes at the bottom, stands with her left arm resting on top of the open gate and looks to the left. Three women, attired in brimmed hats and long-sleeved dresses, stand resting an arm on the picket fence. The barefooted boy, attired in a cap, a shirt, a collared jacket, and pants that end just below the knees, stands next to a dog. In the right, the man, wearing a mustache and attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, holds the reins as he sits on top of a horse, which stands on the sidewalk in front of the house.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Mount has decorative gold border.
See accompanying manuscript notebook United States View Company's Instructions to Salesmen. (P.9502).
Gift of Martha Graybill, 1988.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
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 The United States View Company, was established by Newton Graybill and Lewis Garman of Richfield, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. It was one of several view companies which employed operators and salesmen to photograph and sell the prints of small town residents posed in front of their homes and community buildings.
Subject African American boys -- Pennsylvania -- Portraits.
African American families -- Pennsylvania.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Portraits.
African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Portraits.
Dogs -- Pennsylvania.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania.
Fences -- Pennsylvania.
Horses -- Pennsylvania.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1890-1900.
Group portraits -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - United States View Company - residences [P.9253.74]
Accession number P.9253.74