Cabinet card of Bertha Searcy
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
name: label: Photograph by
content: B. C. Wallace, American
label: Subject of
content: Bertha Searcy
notes: label: Description
content: A cabinet card photograph of Bertha Searcy taken by B. C. Wallace in Huntsville, Alabama. Searcy’s portrait captures her from the waist up, fading out from her waist below. She is wearing a light colored dress with a dark color neckline that extends down her throat and on her shoulders. There is a crack running horizontally through the center of the card. At the bottom margin is printed text information on the photograph studio [B. C. Wallace / HUNTSVILLE, / ALA.]. On the back in pencil, the name of the sitter is handwritten at the top center [Bertha Searcy] and a note written below in ink [To Mother].
place: label: Place depicted
content: Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Women
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: 2011.36.100
objectType: label: Type
content: cabinet photographs
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: silver on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 cm)