Cabinet card of an unidentified woman
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1885
name: label: Photograph by
content: Charles D. Kirkland, American, 1851 - 1926
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: An albumen print cabinet card photograph of a young woman leaning on a chair. Standing against a solid studio backdrop, an unidentified woman wears a highly detailed ensemble of skirt and bodice. At the top of the bodice jacket she wears a bright scalloped hem collar, pinned at the neck by an image pendant. Her jacket features thin round buttons. There is a shining bracelet around her proper left wrist. Her skirt is narrow with pleats and gathers throughout, and she leans arms crossed on a cloth draped chair. At the bottom of the photograph, stamped in black ink, is: [KirklandCheyenne, Wyo]. There are various graphite inscriptions on the reverse of the cabinet photograph, to include the maker’s information stamp: [Kirkland / 294 Ferguson St, / Cheyenne, Wyo. / Negatives Preserved-Duplicates may be had at any / time. / Best stock of Picture Frames in the West.].
place: label: Place captured
content: Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American West
label: Topic
content: Buffalo Soldiers
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Women
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2013.244.15
objectType: label: Type
content: cabinet photographs
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 nitrocellulose on paper (fiber product) with cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image and Sheet): 5 3/4 x 4 1/8 in. (14.6 x 10.4 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Mount): 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 cm)