Cabinet card portrait of a woman identified as a cook
date: label: Date
content: late 19th-early 20th century
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: A sepia toned cabinet card of a woman identified as a cook. The photograph is in portrait orientation. The woman is depicted in from the waist up. She is facing the viewer, staring into the distance up and to the right, with a smile on her face. She is wearing a lace, light tone blouse with a row of seven buttons down the front center and a lace collar. The blouse sleeves are puffed from the shoulders to the elbows. She is also wearing small, metal, drop earrings. Her hair is parted down the center and pulled up and back. She is seated in front of a cloudy photographic backdrop. The rectangular photograph is adhered to a cream color, rectangular, cardboard mount. The mount features two embossed bands around the photograph. In the bottom right corner is handwritten pencil text that reads [Guy]. There is a large surface loss near the top right corner and smaller losses along the right edge and the left corners. The back of the mount is cream colored, plain, and features horizontally oriented, handwritten, blue text that reads [Dear [—-?] / Our cook for 22 years. / Her son Henry, at first my bodyguard / and later my servant].
place: label: Place captured
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Cooking and dining
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Skilled labor
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 James M. Baxter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.13.14
objectType: label: Type
content: cabinet photographs
label: Type
content: gelatin silver 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: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Mounted): 6 × 4 5/16 in. (15.3 × 11 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 3 7/8 × 2 3/4 in. (9.9 × 7 cm)