Details
Creator Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer.
Title [African American man delivering firewood to an African American woman] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1886
Date [ca. 1886]
Physical Description 1 photograph : platinum ; sheet 15 x 20 cm (5.75 x 7.75 in.)
Description Depicts an older African American woman standing in her doorway receiving firewood from an older African American man. The woman, wearing white hair and attired in a long-sleeved dress, a torn and worn apron, and shoes, stands in the doorway of her wooden house with her arms crossed at her waist. In the right, the man, wearing white hair, a torn and worn coat with patches, pants, and shoes, stands with a large bundle of firewood in his hands. In the left are wooden buckets and a bowl.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 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.
Biographical / historical note Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs won several prizes.
Subject African American men.
African American women.
African Americans.
Dwellings -- United States.
Fuelwood.
Older people -- United States.
Rural women -- United States.
Genre Genre photographs -- 1880-1890.
Platinum prints -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Wood [P.8743.178]
Accession number P.8743.178