Tintype portrait of Mrs. Annie Cox
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1865
name: label: Photograph by
content: Hall's Tintype & Ferrotype Gallery, American
label: Subject of
content: Annie Cox
label: Owned by
content: Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
notes: label: Description
content: Tintype of Mrs. Annie Cox shown in three quarter portrait. Cox is seated and leaning with her arms crossed on the arm of a chair. She is turned slightly to her left and looks off frame. Her curly hair is parted at the center and loosely gathered into a ponytail at the nape of her neck. She wears a dark bodice and a plaid skirt. There is a ring on her right hand ring finger. The tintype is housed in its original "Potters Patent" die-cut paper frame.
label: Description
content: Information for Hall's Tintype & Ferrotype Gallery is printed on the back of the photograph.
label: Description
content: The photograph is housed in the album 2017.30. The album page has a triple-lined, gold border framing the print. Handwritten in graphite inside the bottom border of the printed frame of the album page is the text "Mrs. Anna Cox".
place: label: Place made
content: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Antislavery
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Emily Howland Photograph Album
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture shared with the Library of Congress
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.30.28
objectType: label: Type
content: tintypes
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: collodion and silver on iron with lacquer
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 3 1/8 × 1 15/16 in. (8 × 5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image and Mount): 4 × 2 7/16 in. (10.1 × 6.2 cm)