Tintype of a girl in a plaid dress
date: label: Date
content: 1870s
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: Tintype of young girl sitting in fancy plaid dress with a white bow in her hair. She is leaning to the proper right and resting on the arm of a chair. The tintype is framed in an oval mat with a gold frame. The tintype is in a case with a floral design on the front and back. The inside of the case, opposite the tintype is velvet with an embossed floral design.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.312.115
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, resin case
label: Dimensions
content: Case open: 3 3/4 × 6 1/2 × 1/4 in. (9.5 × 16.5 × 0.6 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Case closed: 3 3/4 × 3 1/2 × 1/2 in. (9.5 × 8.9 × 1.3 cm)