Photograph of a woman dancing: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of a woman dancing: Date: early 20th-mid 20th century. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman dancing. The woman is centrally depicted with her proper right side facing the viewer. Her arms and legs are fully extended out and is caught mid-leap. She wears a white dress and metallic, wedge sandals. On the left side of the image, two-thirds of the way from the bottom, is a bass player. Both people are on a stage with a seated audience in the background, seen in the lower right quadrant. On the reverse, in the center, is an inscription handwritten in blue ink that reads, [Alice Sjôblom / Hästholmsvägen 10 / Stockholm].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: early 20th-mid 20th century
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image and sheet): 9 1/2 × 7 1/8 in. (24.2 × 18.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Nightlife
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2013.46.25.54
- 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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