Details
Creator Parlor Gallery (Firm), photographer.
Title [Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified young African American woman] [graphic] / Parlor Gallery, 525 South 9th St. Philad[elphi]a.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1891
Date [ca. 1891]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount ; mount 16 x 11 cm (6.25 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description Three-quarter length portrait of a young African American woman standing with her left hand resting on a side table covered in a patterned tablecloth. She wears her hair tied back with curls at the top of her head and is attired in a patterned shirtwaist with a high-neckline, a ruffled collar, and lace cuffs, and a matching skirt. The background is a painted backdrop of a parlor.
Notes Photographer's imprint stamped on mount.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from operation of the photography studio and attire of the sitter.
Purchase 2001.
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 Parlor Gallery, operated by Lewis Horning, was in business at 525 South 9th Street from around 1886 until around 1894.
Subject African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
African American women -- Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1890-1900.
Photographic studios -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Cabinet photographs -- 1890-1900.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900.
Portrait photographs -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cabinet card portraits - photographer - Parlor [P.9957.8]
Accession number P.9957.8