Indoor portrait of a woman singing: Museum Object and Cultural History
Indoor portrait of a woman singing: Date: 1948 - 1970s. Photograph by: Rev. Henry Clay Anderson, American, 1911 - 1998. Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black-and-white photograph of a woman singing. She is wearing a light gown with dark gloves that don't cover her fingers, a bracelet, necklace and earrings. She is standing in front of a microphone on shaggy carpet. Behind her is a drum set and curtain and to her right is a woman in a dark dress playing a piano.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1948 - 1970s
- Photograph by: Rev. Henry Clay Anderson, American, 1911 - 1998
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- Place made: Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2012.137.7.18
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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