Carte-de-visite portrait of Miss Thiele
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1865
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
label: Owned by
content: Emily Howland, American, 1827 - 1929
notes: label: Description
content: Carte-de-visite of Miss Thiele shown in half portrait. Her body is facing the camera, but her head is turned one quarter to her left and she looks off camera. Her hair is gathered at the back of her head and hanging down in large ringlets. She wears a dark colored bodice with a ruffled white lace collar and a white ruffled ribbon at her front neck. A chatelaine is pinned at her front neck with a watch visible and a longer chain hanging down with an object at the end that is out of frame.
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 "Miss Thiele".
place: label: Place used
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Antislavery
label: Topic
content: Photography
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: 2017.30.10
objectType: label: Type
content: cartes-de-visite
label: Type
content: albumen 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: albumen and silver on photographic paper on card mount
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 3 11/16 × 2 3/16 in. (9.4 × 5.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image and Mount): 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.6 × 6.3 cm)