Photographic postcard of unidentified child: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A photographic postcard of an unidentified child. The child is featured facing the camera and sitting in a wooden chair. The chair is turned sideways, with the seat facing the left of the image. The child is posed sitting towards the arm of the chair. The child's hands rest on the chair's arm and the child's legs are pulled through the opening between the chair's arm and the chair's seat. The child is wearing a light colored gown, stockings, and dark shoes. The back of the photographic postcard is unused and has [POST CARD] printed in black at the top and blank spaces for [CORRESPONDENCE] and [ADDRESS]. In the upper right corner there is a [AZO] stamp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1917-1930
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Printed by: Eastman Kodak Company, founded 1889
• Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children
• Owned by: Maxine Sullivan, American, 1911 - 1987
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 5 × 3 1/8 in. (12.7 × 7.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 5 7/16 × 3 7/16 in. (13.8 × 8.7 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2013.46.29.117
• 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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