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[African American toddler and baby in a pile of cotton] [graphic] / The Photo-Illustrators, 1206 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. Commercial photographers.
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https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A130040
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Creator
Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer.
Title
[African American toddler and baby in a pile of cotton] [graphic] / The Photo-Illustrators, 1206 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. Commercial photographers.
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1950
Date
[ca. 1950]
Physical Description
1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 8 x10 in.
Description
Copy print of a circa 1925 print depicting two babies, outdoor, in a large pile of cotton. In the left, the toddle, attired in a beaded necklace with a white cloth wrapped around its waist, sits up with some cotton in its hands and looks to the right at the infant. In the right, the infant lies in the cotton with its arms out.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from photographic medium and content.
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso.
Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982.
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 children.
African American infants.
Cotton.
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1950-1960.
Reproductions -- 1950-1960.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Photo-Illustrators - Non-Philadelphia - Portraits - Babies
In Collections
African American History Photographs
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