Photograph of Jimmie Jones: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Jimmie Jones: Date: 1936. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Jimmie Jones, American.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of bass player Jimmie Jones. Jones is depicted leaning towards the right of the image, holding the bass. The bass is positioned diagonally across the image from the lower left corner to the upper right corner. His proper left hand is positioned on the top of the fingerboard while his proper right hand strums a string. He is wearing a white suit, white shirt, and a white tie, with a flower in his lapel. In the background, in the upper right quadrant is Jones’s shadow and the shadow of the bass on the wall. There are several inscriptions in pencil on the back of the photograph.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1936
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Jimmie Jones, American
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image and sheet): 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.1 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2013.46.25.45
- 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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