Gelatin silver print of Lead Belly playing the guitar: Museum Object and Cultural History
Gelatin silver print of Lead Belly playing the guitar: Date: 1941. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Huddie William Ledbetter, American, 1888 - 1949.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph of Lead Belly playing the guitar.
Lead Belly is sitting on a chair and is playing a guitar. He is wearing a white collared shirt, a suit, and a bowtie. Josh White is sitting in the background, also playing a guitar. Around them is a crowd of people sitting at tables with white table cloths. There is a mural painting of two men and a woman on the wall in the background. On the verso, handwritten in graphite, is the inscription: "LEADBELLY" / 1941 / JOSH WHITE
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1941
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Huddie William Ledbetter, American, 1888 - 1949
- Subject of: Josh White, American, 1914 - 1969
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (24.1 × 19.4 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Art
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Musicians
- Object number: 2015.97.38.26
- 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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