Details
Creator Archers Studios, photographer.
Title [Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American baby boy] [graphic] / Archers Studios 107 W. Girard Ave. 1358 South Street Philadelphia.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1910
Date [ca. 1910]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount ; mount 14 x 9 cm (5.5 x 3 in.) (post card format)
Description Full-length portrait of an unidentified African American toddler. Shows the child, attired in a white frock, white stockings, and boots, seated on a large, decoratively carved wooden chair with its hands on the arm rests. The child sits on a patterned throw blanket with fringe that is draped over the chair.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript note about provenance on verso: "Sometime in the later 1950s I found this in the secret drawer [?] an old blanket [?] that reportedly came from New Jersey."
Stamped on verso: Post Cards Finished While You Wait.
Gift of Sydney Kaplan, 1983.
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 boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
African American children -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
Toddlers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
Genre Photographic postcards -- 1900-1910.
Portrait photographs -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Portrait Photographs - Misc. - Photo - Archers [P.8938]
Accession number P.8938