Details
Title [Unidentified elderly African American man] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 photograph : platinum ; sheet 21 x 15 cm (8 x 6 in.)
Description Three-quarter length portrait of an African American man seated in a wooden Windsor chair in front of the doorway of a house with walls that are cracked with exposed wood. Sitter, wearing white hair and sideburns and attired in a white shirt, a dark-colored jacket and pants, and a dark-colored coat with paint splatters on the elbow and sleeves, holds a hat in his hand as he looks directly at the viewer.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Originally part of a S.W. Dwayne scrapbook.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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 men -- Portraits.
Older people -- Portraits.
Genre Platinum prints -- 1880-1890.
Portrait photographs -- 1880-1890
Provenance Dwayne, S.W., collector, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| portrait photographs - unidentified male [8836.Q.1]
Accession number 8836.Q.1