Brown "Photographs" Album: Museum Object and Cultural History
Brown "Photographs" Album: date made: 1890's. Object Name: album. Object Name: cyanotype.
The object in the museum catalogue
Worn, brown album with 70 images, numbered. Album contains cyanotype views of Washington, DC, Alexandria, VA, Columbian Exposition, and Harpers Ferry, WV.
Reverse image of letter on the back of the page containing images .182 and .183.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1890's
- Object Name: album
- Object Name: cyanotype
- Physical Description: leather (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: cardboard (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 17.8 cm x 27.6 cm x 4 cm; 7 in x 10 7/8 in x 1 9/16 in
- Subject: African American
- Subject: Children
- Subject: Men
- Subject: Women
- Subject: Circus
- Subject: grave
- Subject: Goats
- Subject: Elephants
- ID Number: 1988.0039.177
- catalog number: 88.39.177
- accession number: 1988.0039
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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