Tintype portrait of Miss Allen
date: label: Date
content: 1865
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Owned by
content: Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
notes: label: Description
content: Tintype of Miss Allen shown in bust portrait. She is turned one quarter to her left, but is looking at the camera. Her cheeks are tinted pink. Her hair is parted at the center and gathered in a chignon at the nape of her neck. She wears a light colored blouse with a dark oval brooch pinned at her front neck. A long, dark, single strand beaded necklace is around her neck. The tintype is placed in its original "Potters Patent" die-cut paper frame, with an oval cut out to display the image. Around the cut out is a heavily ornate embossed frame.
label: Description
content: Handwritten in graphite on the mount below the tintype is the text "Miss Allen Freedmen / teacher / 1865"
label: Description
content: The tintype is housed in the album 2017.30. The album page has a triple-lined, gold border framing the print.
place: label: Place used
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Antislavery
label: Topic
content: Education
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
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
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: 2017.30.23
objectType: label: Type
content: tintypes
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: collodion and silver on iron with lacquer
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 1 15/16 × 1 11/16 in. (4.9 × 4.3 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image and Mount): 3 7/8 × 2 5/16 in. (9.8 × 5.9 cm)