visibility Similar

code Related

[African American woman holding a white child]

description

Summary

Rinhart, no. 119.

Modern handwritten note in case: Slave nanny/white child image came from an estate sale somewhere in the flat lands delta area of Arkansas. Likely from one of the following Arkansas towns: Helena, West Memphis, Forest City, Elaine, Brinkley, Cotton Plant, Clarendon, Pine Bluff.

Purchase; Bruce Kusrow; 1994; (DLC/PP-1994:035).

Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).

Published as "Nursemaid with her charge" in When they were young : a photographic retrospective of childhood from the Library of Congress / Robert Coles. Carlsbad, Calif. : Kales Press ..., c2002, p. 85.

Exhibited: When they were young, Library of Congress, 2002-2003.

Exhibited: "Only skin deep" at the International Center for Photography, N.Y., 2003-2005.

label_outline

Tags

african americans women children ambrotypes hand colored group portraits portrait photographs african american woman african american woman child 1855 images black history month black history month 19th century photo ultra high resolution high resolution new york race relations picture frame frame history california library of congress
date_range

Date

01/01/1855
create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

label_outline Explore African American Woman, Frame, Ambrotypes

Topics

african americans women children ambrotypes hand colored group portraits portrait photographs african american woman african american woman child 1855 images black history month black history month 19th century photo ultra high resolution high resolution new york race relations picture frame frame history california library of congress