Framed studio portrait of Lew Snowden: Museum Object and Cultural History
Framed studio portrait of Lew Snowden: Date: ca. 1870. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Lew Snowden, American, 1848 - 1923.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white studio portrait of Lew Snowden in a decorative, green glass frame with scalloped cut edges. In the photograph, Lew Snowden is standing at the bottom of a staircase. He is wearing a light-colored Zouave style turban, jacket, vest, and trousers with kneepads. Two watch fobs are connected to his vest at his waist. His right arm is resting on the banister of the staircase and his left hand is holding his jacket. In front of the staircase are banjos, tambourines, and a triangle. He is standing in front of a painted background of a hallway. The back of the frame is made of black card stock and has tape adhered to it.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1870
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Lew Snowden, American, 1848 - 1923
- Type: photographs
- Type: portraits
- Medium: photograph with glass and card stock
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 6 1/8 × 4 1/16 in. (15.5 × 10.3 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W x D (frame): 9 × 7 × 3/4 in. (22.9 × 17.8 × 1.9 cm)
- Place used: Knox County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Folk (Music)
- Topic: Free communities of color
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Musicians
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2024.65.5
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Howard L. Sacks and Judith Rose Sacks from the Snowden Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: Public domain Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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