Four photographic headshot portraits of Maxine Sullivan: Museum Object and Cultural History
Four photographic headshot portraits of Maxine Sullivan: Date: ca. 1960. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987.
The object in the museum catalogue
A set of four black and white photographs of Maxine Sullivan (2013.46.29.102.1.-.4). The headshot features Sullivan facing the camera and wearing a sweater with a handkerchief around her neck. The backs of photographs 2013.46.29.102.1-.3 are blank. The back of 2013.46.29.102.4 has a number and the word [multiple] written by hand in the top left.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1960
- 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 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (23.5 × 19.1 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 9 13/16 × 8 1/16 in. (24.9 × 20.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.46.29.102.1-.4
- 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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