Details
Creator Fenton, J., photographer.
Title [Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning unidentified woman family member portrait] [graphic] / [J. Fento]n's [pho]tograph, [a]mbrotype, [fe]rrotype and photo miniature gallery, No. 729 South St., below 8th, north side, Philadelphia. Formerly of Ninth & Market Streets.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1869
Date Summer 1869
Physical Description 1 photograph : tintype ; 5 x 4 cm (2 x 1.5 in.)
Description Half-length portrait. Shows the woman, her hair parted in the middle, and pulled back and attired in a long-sleeved dark dress adorned with a white collar and buttons down the bodice. Sitter also wears drop earrings.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from manuscript note on detached label.
Accompanied by detached photographer's label.
Removed to Print Department from Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Object Collection.
See Lib. Company Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31.
Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky.
See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45.
Genealogical charts available at repository.
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.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Access points reviewed 2022.
Subject African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Portraits.
Genre Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Tintypes -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Portrait Collection [P.2012.37.4]
Accession number P.2012.37.4