Photograph album presented to Beatrice Williams
date: label: Date
content: 1894-1920
name: label: Compiled by
content: Unidentified
label: Owned by
content: Beatrice Williams
notes: label: Description
content: This photograph album contains seventeen (17) pages, with the final one pasted to the interior back cover. The cover is made from burgundy synthetic fiber and off-white bast fiber covered pasteboard, with a cream-colored celluloid panel on the front cover that has a raised decoration of a floral sprig. The spine is made from brown cloth. The back cover is made from the same burgundy synthetic and off-white bast fiber covered pasteboard. The pages have gold gilt around the edges. Each page has a window for displaying a cabinet card, or in the case of the final three pages two windows for displaying smaller photographs such as cartes-de-visite or tintypes. The windows on the pages are framed in gold gilt. The book closed on the proper right side with a metal clasp, the back half of which is now missing. An inscription is written on the inside cover. Fifteen (15) photographs are contained inside the album. Pages 7, 13, 14, and 16 are blank.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Photography
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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 JoAnn Oxley Foster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.111
objectType: label: Type
content: photograph albums
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: synthetic fiber and bast fiber cloth, pasteboard, celluloid, adhesive, and paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (closed): 7 7/8 × 7 1/16 × 2 3/8 in. (20 × 18 × 6 cm)