Photograph of a woman on a settee

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.

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman seated on a settee. The woman is depicted against a light colored, draped, fabric background. She is seated with her proper right arm resting on the carved wooden arm of the fabric covered settee. She is wearing a light toned, strapless, lacey dress. Her proper left arm rests on her lap and a small hydrangea bouquet rests on top of her hand. The fingers of her proper right hand rest on top of the hydrangea bouquet. She is wearing a choker with three rows of clear stones and single, clear stone earrings. There is an inscription in black ink across the center of the photograph, that reads, [To a real Sincere[?] friend. / Lauri you know I / mean it / is [---?]r / Elaine]. The photographer's mark, printed in the negative in the bottom right corner reads, [James J. / Kriegsmann /N.Y.].

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