Photograph of Cameron Scott Falkener: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This black and white photograph depicts a toddler, Cameron Scott Falkener, sitting on a piano stool, playing the piano. The little boy is wearing a light colored shirt, light shoes and dark, short plaid overalls. There is a green ink scribble on the front and no inscriptions or marks on the back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1953
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Cameron Scott Falkener, American, born 1951
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 6 15/16 × 4 15/16 in. (17.7 × 12.6 cm)
• Place depicted: Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2014.94.12
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Margaret Falkener DeLorme, Waldo C. Falkener, Cameron S. Falkener and Gilbert E. DeLorme
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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