Tintype of young woman in striped dress

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 black-and-white tintype of a young woman in a striped dress. In this half-length portrait, the woman is sitting, facing the camera, with her proper right arm crossed at her waist and her proper left arm resting in her lap. She is wearing a black scarf around her neck pinned with a brooch. Her hair is in an updo. She is wearing drop earrings and has several rings on her right hand. There are no markings on verso.

Catalog date

Late 1860s

Recorded places

United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Photography; Women

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