Photograph of Baxter White: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Baxter White: Date: 1936. Photograph by: Bloom Photography, American. Subject of: Baxter White.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Baxter White. White is depicted from the chest up. His proper left shoulder is held slightly forward and his head is turned towards the viewer. He is wearing a tuxedo jacket, white vest, and white bow tie. He is shown against a white gradient background. The photographer's mark, printed in the negative, located in the bottom right corner reads, [Bloom / Chicago]. Baxter’s full name and several notations in pencil are written on the back of the photograph.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1936
- Photograph by: Bloom Photography, American
- Subject of: Baxter White
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image and sheet): 9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (24 × 19 cm)
- Place made: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blues (Music)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.46.25.142
- 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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