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Cabinet card of an unidentified man

ca. 1890

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This cabinet card has a photograph of an unidentified man seated at a quarter turn to his right. He wears a dark-colored double-breasted coat, a white shirt, and a patterned necktie with a horseshoe-shaped tie pin. Text printed at the bottom of the card mount reads "Lothrop / 54 N. NINTH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. / JUST BELOW ARCH STREET." The reverse of the card is blank with a handwritten inscription reading "Sarah Robinson."

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Catalog reference: 2009.31.29

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