Group portrait of young women in costume celebrating a birthday
date: label: Date
content: 1948 - 1970s
name: label: Created by
content: Rev. Henry Clay Anderson, American, 1911 - 1998
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: The setting of this photograph appears to the backstage space of an outdoor production (suggested by the tent sheltering the women, rough wooden furniture, large cosmetic cases, etc.). A table in the image's foreground holds a large frosted cake with numerous candles. The seated woman wears a small tiara and remains out of costume while the other women wear cropped white tops and fringed vests as well as short fringed skirts over fishnet stockings. The also wear feathered head bands which are tied low on their foreheads.
place: label: Place made
content: Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Nightlife
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Social life and customs
label: Topic
content: Theatre
label: Topic
content: Women
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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 Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.137.3.50
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)