Photograph of a Blanche Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of a Blanche Calloway: Date: ca. 1940. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Blanche Calloway, American, 1904 - 1978.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Blanche Calloway. She is depicted in bust pose, in three-quarters profile, smiling and looking off to the top left edge of the image. Her long hair falls down her back, on the right side of the image. She is wearing a light colored blouse, with her proper left shoulder exposed to the viewer. Behind her is a white-to-grey background. There are pencil marks throughout the back of the image.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1940
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Blanche Calloway, American, 1904 - 1978
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 5/16 × 7 7/16 in. (23.7 × 18.9 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 10 1/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.5 × 20.2 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.46.25.55
- 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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