Photograph of a group of female performers in costume: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photograph of a group of female performers in costume: Date: 1933-1942. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Chickie Collins, American, died 1942.
The object in the museum catalogue
A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of seven female performers in matching costumes. The women are depicted in three rows. There are two women in the bottom row, three in the middle row, and two in the top row. The women in the top and middle rows are crouched over the women in the bottom row. They are all wearing matching white wearing bikini tops with black bands on the shoulder straps and along the bust line. Chickie Collins, is depicted in the bottom right and Birdie Warfield Edison is depicted in the top left. Behind the women is tall fencing and a brick wall. The image is blurred and overexposed. And there is a white field above the top row that crops off the top of Birdie Warfield Edison’s head. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1933-1942
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Chickie Collins, American, died 1942
- Subject of: Birdie Warfield Edison, American
- 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): 4 15/16 × 4 5/8 in. (12.5 × 11.8 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 7 × 4 7/8 in. (17.8 × 12.4 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Theatre
- Object number: 2013.46.25.218
- 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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