Five photographic headshot portraits of Maxine Sullivan: Museum Object and Cultural History
Five photographic headshot portraits of Maxine Sullivan: Date: ca. 1980. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987.
The object in the museum catalogue
A set of five black and white photographs of Maxine Sullivan (1.-.5). The headshot features Sullivan facing the camera and wearing a turtle neck and jacket with a music note pin on the collar. The lower left boarder has Sullivan's name and address. The back of the photograph is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1980
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 3/8 × 6 1/2 in. (23.8 × 16.5 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm)
- Place depicted: Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.46.29.101.1-.5
- 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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