Photograph of Gladys Bentley: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Gladys Bentley: Date: 1927-1945. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Gladys Bentley, American, 1907 - 1960.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of entertainer Gladys Bentley. Bentley is depicted facing the viewer in bust pose. She is wearing a black top hat, dark bow tie, a white dress shirt, and black tuxedo suit jacket. Her top hat is perched slightly towards her proper right shoulder. The edges of the image are faded into an oval-shaped, white background. The print does not have any inscriptions, front or back.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1927-1945
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Gladys Bentley, American, 1907 - 1960
- Owned by: Laura Cathrell, 1914 - 1999
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image and sheet): 6 3/16 × 4 1/4 in. (15.7 × 10.8 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blues (Music)
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Topic: Women
- Object number: 2013.46.25.15
- 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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