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[African American woman caregiver with her two white charges in Atlantic City] [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A128267
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Title
[African American woman caregiver with her two white charges in Atlantic City] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1907
Date
[ca. 1907]
Physical Description
1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 11 x 13 cm (4 x 5 in.)
Description
Full-length portrait of an African American woman caretaker standing on the steps with a white girl and a white boy. The woman, wearing her hair tied up and attired in a hat and a long-sleeved, white dress with a belt, stands on the sidewalk before the stairs with her right hand in front of her waist and her left hand behind her back. The girl, wearing her curly hair with a bow tied in the left and attired in a long-sleeved white dress with a belt, white socks, and Mary Jane shoes, stands on the steps facing the viewer with her hands at her side. In the right, the boy, attired in a sailor suit with a belt and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his hands at his sides. In the left is "The Criterion," a hair dressing parlor in Atlantic City. The parlor operated from 1907 until 1908, first at the Hotel Islesworth, then The Hotel Bothwell.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from the attire of the sitters.
Accessioned 1998.
RVCDC
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.
Subject
African American caregivers -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
African American women -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Beauty shops -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Boys -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Children -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Girls -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Hotels -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City.
Nannies (Children's nurses)
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photos - 5 x 7 - unidentified - Recreation [P.9619.3]
Accession number
P.9619.3
In Collections
African American History Photographs
Race and Visual Culture Digital Collection, 1901-1980
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