Object Details
- Description
- In this black-and-white photograph, Althea Gibson poses on a stool with two tennis rackets. Both the rackets have dark colors printed with "Althea Gibson" in white letters.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Created by
- Wallace Seawell, American, 1916 - 2007
- Subject of
- Althea Gibson, American, 1927 - 2003
- Date
- 1959
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- 10 1/8 x 8 1/16 in. (25.7 x 20.5 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
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