Headshot of Hattie McDaniel as "Mammy" from Gone with the Wind: Museum Object and Cultural History
Headshot of Hattie McDaniel as "Mammy" from Gone with the Wind: Date: 1939. Photograph by: Unidentified. Distributed by: Selznick International Pictures, American, 1935 - 1943.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph headshot of actress Hattie McDaniels in costume as her character role "Mammy" in the motion picture Gone With the Wind. McDaniels is depicted in three-quarters profile view from the shoulders up, wearing one light-colored kerchief tied around her head and another around her neck. She also wears small earrings, which slightly out of focus. She looks straight ahead, unsmiling, with a slightly furrowed brow. There are no marks or inscriptions, front or back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1939
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Distributed by: Selznick International Pictures, American, 1935 - 1943
- Subject of: Hattie McDaniel, American, 1895 - 1952
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Hollywood (Film)
- Topic: Stereotypes
- Object number: 2014.270.1.2
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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