Photograph of a man and two chorus girls from Club Plantation: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a man two (2) chorus girls from the Plantation Club in Harlem, New York. The women are depicted standing on either side of the man. The woman on the left side of the image, Chickie Collins, has her proper left arm resting on the man’s shoulder. The women are wearing matching white, short sleeve shirts, and dark, wide legged sailor pants with white side buttons and pockets. The man is wearing a dark toned, double breasted suit jacket, medium toned pants, a medium toned collared shirt, and a patterned tie. He has a white pocket square in his proper left breast pocket. An inscription in black ink on the front of the photograph reads, [Chickie N.Y.C. me[?]]. There are no inscriptions on the back of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1933
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Chickie Collins, American, died 1942
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Club Plantation, American, founded 1932
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 4 1/8 × 2 5/16 in. (10.4 × 5.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 4 1/2 × 2 11/16 in. (11.5 × 6.9 cm)
• Place captured: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2013.46.25.255
• 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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