Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black-and-white stereograph group photograph of the original Jubilee Singers from Fisk University located in Nashville, Tennessee. The object consists of double photographs of the same image taken from two slightly different perspectives. Stereographs are distinctive among other stereoscopic photographs because they are photographic prints mounted on cards, From 1856 they were produced with twin-lens cameras, creating a three dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1872
• Created by: American Missionary Association, American, 1846 - 1999
• Photograph by: James Wallace Black, American, 1825 - 1896
• Subject of: Fisk Jubilee Singers, American, founded 1871
• Type: albumen prints
• Type: stereographs
• Medium: albumen, sodium chloride, silver nitrate on photographic paper and cardboard
• Dimensions: H x W (Mount): 3 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 1/16 in. (8.3 x 17.1 x 0.2 cm)
• Place depicted: Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Education
• Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
• Topic: Humanitarianism
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
• Topic: Religion
• Topic: Spirituals (Music)
• Object number: 2011.57.23
• 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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