Photograph of Muriel Millard: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Muriel Millard. Millard is depicted from the shoulders up, in profile, lying on white fur. Her head is turned towards the right edge of the image and her shoulders are nude. Her hair is in an up-do and she has a large, button shaped earring dangling from her proper right ear. In the bottom third of the photograph is a handwritten inscription in blue ink that reads, [To / Laurie / Best Wishes / from M[---?] / Millard[?] / Palace / Theatre / New York. / 52]. There are no inscriptions on the back of the photograph.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1952
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Muriel Millard, Canadian, 1922 - 2014
• Subject of: Palace Theatre, American, founded 1913
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 9 1/4 × 7 7/16 in. (23.5 × 18.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in. (25.3 × 20.4 cm)
• Place collected: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: Theatre
• Object number: 2013.46.25.183
• 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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