Photograph of the Cotten family: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of the Cotten family: Date: 1902. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Carrie Cotten.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph of the nine members of the Cotten family taken in 1902. The names of the family members have been written on or above their likenesses. Tom Cotten and Sallie Cotten sit in the middle with their daughters sitting and standing around them. The girls are identified as (left to right): Myrtle (seated), Carrie, Mildred, Loula, Elizabeth, and Susie (seated). A small boy identified as Ernest Cotten sits on a small stool in front of Tom and Sallie. Written below the image is “The Cotten Family 1902.” The back of the photograph is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1902
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Carrie Cotten
- Subject of: Mildred Cotten
- Subject of: Loula Cotten Williams, American, died 1927
- Subject of: Myrtle Cotten
- Subject of: Tom Cotten
- Subject of: Sallie Cotten
- Subject of: Susie Cotten
- Type: photographs
- Type: portraits
- Medium: ink on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Place depicted: Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- Place captured: Madison County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: American South
- Topic: American West
- Topic: Families
- Topic: Photography
- Object number: 2011.60.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Families of Anita Williams Christopher and David Owen Williams
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The displayed image also has an explicit CC0 designation. The underlying object's rights statement is: Public domain Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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