Gelatin silver print of a woman singing into a microphone: Museum Object and Cultural History
Gelatin silver print of a woman singing into a microphone: Date: 1920s - 1950s. Photograph by: Franklin Photos Reproductions, American. Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women.
The object in the museum catalogue
She is wearing a long dark dress under a knee-length white fur coat. She is angled slightly away from the camera, her arms are bent and slightly raised by her sides. She appears to be singing into the microphone. The microphone, a rectangular ribbon style, is mounted on a tall stand. Behind her, heart-shaped wire back chairs and tables are just visible along with the letters "J" and "H" in white in the lower right side of the image.
On the reverse is a stamp for Franklin Photos Reproductions.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1920s - 1950s
- Photograph by: Franklin Photos Reproductions, American
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 9 3/16 × 7 1/8 in. (23.3 × 18.1 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 8 15/16 × 6 7/8 in. (22.7 × 17.5 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2015.97.38.16
- 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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