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 dancing on a stage. She is wearing a black, string bikini. She is facing the viewer and looking down towards the stage. Her proper right arm is raised in front of her face and her proper left arm is behind her in mid-swing. Behind her is a low, white picket fence, decorated with plants and ivy. A cut out of an illustrated man with the end of an arrow protruding from his backside sits on top of the picket fence. To the left of the fence is a man in a white suit jacket, black pants, and a dark bow tie. Several people are watching the woman perform from behind the picket fence. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: after 1946
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 7/16 × 7 11/16 in. (24 × 19.5 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 10 1/16 × 8 3/16 in. (25.5 × 20.8 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Nightlife
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2013.46.25.132
• 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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