Photograph of Paul Brown: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Paul Brown: Date: ca. 1937. Photograph by: Hughey J. Battelle. Subject of: Paul Brown.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Paul Brown. Brown is depicted in profile from the chest up. He is facing the left edge of the image. Brown is wearing a black tuxedo with a white bow tie. There is a white flower attached to his proper left lapel and a white pocket square tucked into his proper left breast pocket. The photographer's mark, printed in the negative, in the bottom left corner of the photograph reads, [H. BAttELLE / N.Y.C.]. There are no inscriptions on the front of the photograph. There are several pencil notations written on the back of the photograph.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1937
- Photograph by: Hughey J. Battelle
- Subject of: Paul Brown
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 6 7/16 × 4 7/16 in. (16.3 × 11.2 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 7 × 4 7/8 in. (17.8 × 12.4 cm)
- Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Nightlife
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.46.25.203
- 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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