Carte-de-visite portrait of Abby and Julia Smith
date: label: Date
content: 1877
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Abby Hadassah Smith, American, 1797 - 1878
label: Subject of
content: Julia Evelina Smith, American, 1792 - 1886
label: Owned by
content: Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
notes: label: Description
content: Carte-de-visite of Abby Hadassah Smith and Julia Evelina Smith shown in full portrait. The Smith sisters are shown standing with one shown in profile with her left side facing the camera. She looks at her sister standing to her right, who is facing the camera but looks off frame to her right. Both women wear dark colored bonnets, dark duster coats over their dresses, and have large paisley shawls draped over their arms around their backs. They stand in front of a wall with decorative wallpaper on the lower portion and behind a small wooden table.
label: Description
content: Handwritten in graphite on the mount below the print is the text, "Abby Julia". On the back of the photograph, handwritten in graphite, is the text, "The Smith sisters / Glastonbury / Conn. / 1877".
label: Description
content: The photograph is housed in the album 2017.30. The album page has a triple-lined, gold border framing the print. Handwritten in graphite inside the bottom border of the printed frame of the album page is the text "Abby + Julia Smith of Conn." Handwritten at the lower left corner of the album page in graphite is the text "SMITH SISTERS - 1877".
place: label: Place depicted
content: Glastonbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Antislavery
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Suffrage
label: Topic
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Emily Howland Photograph Album
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Abolitionist movement
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.30.11
objectType: label: Type
content: cartes-de-visite
label: Type
content: albumen prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: albumen and silver on photographic paper on card mount
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 3 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (9.2 × 5.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image and Mount): 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.6 × 6.3 cm)