Photograph of a female performer in costume: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a female performer in costume. She is depicted standing on a small, raised platform. Her elbows are bent, her hands raised with her palms facing out towards the viewer. She is standing with her proper right leg crossed over her proper left leg, and with her head and torso are leaning towards the left edge of the image. She is wearing a dress costume with a skirt that is short in front and long in the back. The deep neckline and shoulders of the costume are embellished with white flowers. She is wearing a small cap also embellished with white flowers, and white hand gloves. The photographer's mark, printed in the negative, in the bottom right corner reads, [James J. Kriegsmann / NY.]. There are notations in pencil on the front and back of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1937
• Photograph by: James J. Kriegsmann, 1909 - 1994
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in. (23.9 × 19 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.3 × 20.2 cm)
• Place made: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2013.46.25.131
• 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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