Tintype of Adela Harden
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1900
name: label: Photograph by
content: John Green, American
label: Subject of
content: Adela Harden
notes: label: Caption
content: John Green was a Black photographer who owned a photography studio in Denver, Colorado that he operated in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
label: Description
content: A hand-tinted tintype portrait of a small child identified as Adela Harden, captured by photographer John Green. The child is wearing a light garment, patterned stockings, dark boots, and a pearl type necklace and is seated on a piece of furniture covered with a patterned cloth with fringed edges. The image is attached to a faded pink paper card. The rectangular image window has a rounded top. The image window is bordered by red lines. The outer edge of the card is bordered by a repeating pattern in red. The back of the card is stamped with an oval stamp, the border of which matches the border decoration around the image window. Inside the border are the words [John Green / PHOTOGRAPHER / Cor. 18th & Market Sets. / Denver Colorado.] Along the left edge handwritten vertical text that reads [Adela Harden].
place: label: Place made
content: Denver, Colorado, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American West
label: Topic
content: Business
label: Topic
content: Children
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2014.37.13.4
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 with ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 3 1/8 × 1 15/16 in. (8 × 5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (card): 4 11/16 × 3 1/16 in. (11.9 × 7.7 cm)