THE ONLY ORIGINAL University Singers of New Orleans: Museum Object and Cultural History
THE ONLY ORIGINAL University Singers of New Orleans: Date: 1877-1890. Photograph by: Edward W. Bogardus, American, 1838 - 1890. Subject of: New Orleans University Singers, American, 1877 - 1897.
The object in the museum catalogue
Cabinet card of "THE ONLY ORIGINAL University Singers of New Orleans." There are four men and five women in the photograph. Printed on the reverse if the card is “BOGARDUS, No. 349 Sixth Avenue, New York."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1877-1890
- Photograph by: Edward W. Bogardus, American, 1838 - 1890
- Subject of: New Orleans University Singers, American, 1877 - 1897
- Type: cabinet photographs
- Type: portraits
- Type: portraits
- Medium: photographic gelatin and silver nitrate on photographic paper on card mount
- Dimensions: H x W: 4 1/8 × 6 7/16 in. (10.5 × 16.4 cm)
- Place depicted: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Place printed: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Education
- Topic: Music
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2011.155.69
- 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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