Cabinet card studio portrait of a young woman seated with a book
date: label: Date
content: early 20th century
name: label: Photograph by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Woman or Women
notes: label: Description
content: A sepia tone cabinet card of a young woman seated on a chair. The photograph is in portrait orientation. The unidentified women is sitting with her body is facing the viewer and her head tilted and turned slightly towards the right. She is smiling and looking into the distance towards the right. She is holding the fore edge of a thin book propped up in her lap with her proper right hand and her proper left hand is resting on her proper left thigh. She is wearing a white, long sleeve, V-neck blouse accented with thin, vertical, lace panels down the left and right sides of her chest. She is also wearing and a dark tone, pleated, full skirt with a wide waistband. Her hair is pulled back into a chignon and she is wearing a collar length pearl necklace. She is seated in an ornately carved wooden chair. The photographic backdrop behind her is mostly plain with a large vase of flowers painted in the bottom left corner. The rectangular photograph is adhered to a plain cream cardboard mount with three embossed rectangular bands around the photograph. There are small losses at the bottom left, top left and right corners, and along all four edges. There is a single pinhole at the top center and six pin holes at the bottom center. The back of the mount is plain with a horizontal black ink mark near the bottom center.
place: label: Place captured
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Photography
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, Gift of James M. Baxter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.13.3
objectType: label: Type
content: cabinet photographs
label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (Mounted): 7 7/8 × 5 9/16 × 1/16 in. (20 × 14.1 × 0.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 6 × 4 1/16 in. (15.3 × 10.3 cm)