Gelatin silver print of Olyve P. Hopkins: Museum Object and Cultural History
Gelatin silver print of Olyve P. Hopkins: Date: 1947. Photograph by: Blackstone Studios, Inc., American. Subject of: Olyve P. Hopkins.
The object in the museum catalogue
The image is a full-length portrait of Hopkins, sitting on a chair next to a large flower arrangement. She wears a white long-sleeved dress with a v-neck and sequined designs on the front of the bodice and the side of the skirt. She is looking at up at the camera and holds a small floral arrangement in her hands on her lap. The print is autographed in the bottom right in black ink: Sincerely yours, / Olyve P. Hopkins / 1947]. On the verso is the inscription: [Virtuoso / O.P. Hopkins / NY / 1947].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1947
- Photograph by: Blackstone Studios, Inc., American
- Subject of: Olyve P. Hopkins
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 10 × 7 13/16 in. (25.4 × 19.8 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2015.97.38.27
- 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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