Tintype of a girl
date: label: Date
content: 1890s
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Created by
content: Unidentified Child or Children
notes: label: Description
content: Tintype depicting a young girl wearing a white dress with decorated trim in the front. The tintype is in a paper sleeve with an oval opening framing the portrait. The outside of the oval is elaborately embossed. On the back, written in pencil, is [Carla]. Paper sleeve is discolored around outer edges and embossed frame.
place: label: Place collected
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 Oprah Winfrey
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.312.148
objectType: label: Type
content: tintypes
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: collodion and silver on iron with lacquer, paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Paper frame): 4 × 2 1/2 in. (10.2 × 6.4 cm)