Photographic print of Maxine Sullivan and her children: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photographic print of Maxine Sullivan and her children: Date: ca. 1955. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph of Maxine Sullivan and her children, Paula and Orville Williams. The three are standing outside a building in a yard. A wooden pole structure is behind them. The back of the photograph is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: ca. 1955
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987
- Subject of: Paula Williams Morris, American, born 1945
- Subject of: Orville L. Williams, American, born 1928
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 3 × 3 1/16 in. (7.6 × 7.8 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (8.9 × 8.9 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Children
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Motherhood
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.46.29.131
- 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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