Albumen print of a sharecropping family
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1880
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Caption
content: The identities of the individuals in this photograph, as well as the exact location it was captured, are unknown, but the style of dress and the shanties in the background are typical of formerly enslaved sharecroppers in the American South after the Civil War.
label: Description
content: An albumen print mounted on dark gray pasteboard depicting a family or group of unidentified people, likely sharecroppers, standing outside in front of a row of small houses. The unidentified people include two (2) adult men, four (4) adult women, and four (4) children. The four women stand in the center; the woman at far left wears a hat and dark-colored sweater, and the woman at the far right holds a baby in her arms. The women are flanked by the two men. Both men wear hats, and the man on the far right holds a pipe in his mouth. There are three additional young children standing among the group:one, in a hat, stands next to the woman in the hat, another peers out from between the two women at center, and the third stands in front of the woman holding the baby. Two (2) pigs are in the foreground in front of the group of people, while a third pig stands near a fence in the right background. Along the right side of the photograph is a row of three identical small dwellings, each with a peaked roof and a front porch. The pasteboard mount has been cut off along the left side of the print.
place: label: Place depicted
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Agriculture
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
label: Topic
content: Emancipation
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Housing
label: Topic
content: Motherhood
label: Topic
content: Parenthood
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
label: Topic
content: Rural life
label: Topic
content: Slavery
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1865-1921
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: 2012.17.2
objectType: 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 paper and pasteboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 5 x 3 3/4 in. (12.7 x 9.5 cm)