Portrait depicting an African American man, with his back to the viewer, as he climbs over a fence on a snow-covered landscape. The man, attired in a brimmed hat, a coat, pants, and boots, holds a rifle in his right hand and a dead possum by its tail in the left hand., Title from lantern slide at Staten Island New York Historical Society., 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist and traveler, turned to photography in the 1880s, exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at several national and international photography exhibitions. His photographs often won prizes.
Creator
Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date
[ca. 1888]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.182]
Depicts an older African American man, attired in torn and worn clothing, exiting through the doorway of his wooden house carrying a hoe. The man, wearing white hair and a white beard and attired in a top hat, a white shirt, a waistcoat, a torn coat, torn pants with patches, and shoes, steps down his front stairs of the dilapidated house. In front of the house is a stool with a basket on top, a broom, a small table with a wooden bushel and a bowl, and a cup rests on the windowsill., Title from manuscript note on verso., Variant of prize winner at the Philadelphia Photographic Society Exhibition 1886., Gift of Elsie Wood Harmon, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Frances Orlando's "George Bacon Wood, photographer of the 1880's: an introduction to the Wood Collection in the Library Company of Philadelphia." (Master's thesis, Philadelphia College of Art, 1985), p. 41., 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., Wood, a Philadelphia artist, turned to photography in the 1880s exhibiting his work, including genre studies of African Americans, at national and international photography exhibition. His photographs won prizes.
Creator
Wood, George Bacon, 1832-1909, photographer
Date
[ca. 1888]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wood [P.8743.181]
