Photograph of Velma Middleton and an unidentified woman at a piano: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of Velma Middleton and an unidentified woman at a piano: Date: mid 20th century. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Velma Middleton, American, 1917 - 1961.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Velma Middleton and a woman seated at a piano. The woman seated at the piano has her fingers on the keys and her head and proper left shoulder turned towards the viewer. She is wearing a short sleeve, floral pattern print dress. Behind her is Middleton. She is standing behind the woman playing the piano, in three quarters profile, with her head turned towards the viewer. Her proper right arm is resting on the piano and her proper left arm is by her side. She is wearing a long sleeve, leaf pattern dress with a square neckline. There is a floor lamp next to the piano and small framed decoration on the wall behind Middleton. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the image.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: mid 20th century
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Velma Middleton, American, 1917 - 1961
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 7/16 × 7 7/16 in. (23.9 × 18.9 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.46.25.117
- 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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