<I>Harlem Dancer</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1932
name: label: Photograph by
content: James Van Der Zee, American, 1886 - 1983
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: A toned gelatin silver print which features a woman in the center foreground of a studio portrait. She wears an elaborate feathered headdress, cape, and gilded corset. The corset has a low hanging fringe of metallic loops which extend past the proper waist and lay against the upper thighs. The woman also wears what appear to be voluminous harem pants. Her PR hand is placed on her PR hip while her PL hand is held aloft just behind her PL hip. The background behind her is a backdrop of a formal interior; a chair draped with a quilt features prominently in the bottom right corner of the foreground.
place: label: Place depicted
content: New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Fashion
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1919-1933
label: Topic
content: Urban life
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
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: 2014.166.1
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 8 1/8 × 5 in. (20.6 × 12.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 6 13/16 × 4 15/16 in. (17.3 × 12.5 cm)