Photograph of a young woman in a dark dress: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of a young woman in a dark dress: Date: 1881-1900. Photograph by: Orlando Scott Goff, American, 1843 - 1916. Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women.
The object in the museum catalogue
A cabinet card photograph portrait depicting a young woman in a dark dress with puffed sleeves. She is pictured standing in front of a painted studio backdrop, with her proper right hand resting on the back of a chair. Printed on the card below the photograph is “O. S. GOFF” and DICKINSON / N. D."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1881-1900
- Photograph by: Orlando Scott Goff, American, 1843 - 1916
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: cabinet photographs
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper on card mount
- Dimensions: H x W (card): 6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in. (16.3 × 10.7 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (image): 5 9/16 × 3 7/8 in. (14.1 × 9.8 cm)
- Place captured: Dickinson, Stark County, North Dakota, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American West
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2016.5.2.61
- 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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