Photograph of Chickie Collins with two unidentified female performers in costume: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Chickie Collins with two unidentified female performers in costume. The woman on the far left, Chickie Collins, is depicted standing with her proper left arm raised and her proper right hand at her waist, grasping the raised, proper right wrist of the woman lying on the ground in front of her. Her head is tilted towards her proper right shoulder and she is looking upwards. She is wearing a wearing light toned, Grecian-style costume, secured at her proper right shoulder, leaving the other shoulder bare. The woman lying on the ground with her proper left arm extended towards, and clasped by, the woman standing behind her, is reclining on her proper right elbow. She is looking towards the right edge of the photograph. She is wearing a garment that leaves both shoulders bare. The third woman, depicted on the far right, is kneeling next to the woman standing on the far left. She is wearing a light toned, Grecian-style costume, secured at the proper left shoulder, leaving the other shoulder bare. There are two black photo corners securing the photograph to a black cardboard backing. 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: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image and sheet): 4 1/16 × 2 3/4 in. (10.3 × 7 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Dance
• Topic: Entertainers
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2013.46.25.250
• 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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