<I>Bob and His Fiddle</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1876-1888
name: label: Photograph by
content: O. Pierre Havens, American, 1838 - 1912
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: A stereograph titled "Bob and His Fiddle" printed and photographed by O. Pierre Havens of Savannah, Georgia. The albumen prints depict a boy holding a homemade fiddle while seated outside a small log dwelling. He wears a white shirt, dark vest, dark pants, and no shoes. His hat is lying on the ground by his left foot. He looks down at the fiddle held in his left hand and propped on his left shoulder, while holding a bow made from string and a bent stick in his right hand over the strings of the fiddle. The title is blurred and printed in the bottom left corner on the right facing print. The prints are mounted on card stock that is orange on the recto and light pink on the verso. On the verso black text in various decorative fonts reads: [Havens / (Successor to Wilson & Havens) / PHOTOGRAPHER / 141 & 143 Broughton Street / SAVANNAH, GA. / PUBLISHER OF THE / LARGEST COLLECTION / OF / SOUTHERN VIEWS / IN / THE UNITED STATES.].
place: label: Place printed
content: Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Child musicians
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
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: Collection title
content: Liljenquist Family 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 from the Liljenquist Family Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.166.4
objectType: label: Type
content: albumen prints
label: Type
content: stereographs
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: albumen and silver on paper on card mount
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 3 15/16 × 7 in. (10 × 17.8 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image (each)): 3 3/4 × 6 1/2 in. (9.5 × 16.5 cm)