Photographic print of helmeted boy in toy US tank: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black and white photograph of a boy wearing a helmet in a toy US Army tank. The boy leans over the proper left side of the tank and smiles at the camera. The tank is stationary on a paved driveway adjacent to a brick building. There is an imprint of a palm tree in the bottom left corner of the border on the front of the photograph. The back of the photograph has an inscription, by hand, of the number: [1094.01] and a photographer's stamp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: August 1945
• Photograph by: Charles "Teenie" Harris, American, 1908 - 1998
• Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.6 × 50.6 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 13 × 15 7/8 in. (33 × 40.3 cm)
• Place depicted: Francis Street and Wylie Avenue, Hill District, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Black Press
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Play
• Object number: 2014.302.9
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Charles A. Harris and Beatrice Harris in memory of Charles "Teenie" Harris
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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