Object Details
- Description
- This cabinet card has a photograph of an unidentified woman standing and looking at the camera with her left hand resting on a short pillar draped in ivy. The woman wears a dark-colored velvet dress with a high neck and a bodice that buttons at the center front with several small metal buttons. She has a metal brooch pinned to the front of her collar. Printed on the bottom of the card mount is the text "Ramsdell." A logo featuring a circular medallion with a strip of film running through it has text reading "Ramsdell PHOTO ARTIST / 817 CHAPEL STREET / NEW HAVEN. Ct. / NEGATIVES PRESERVED".
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Ramsdell Photo Artist, American
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Date
- ca. 1890
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Family of Keith M. Jones in honor of Lonnie Bunch
- Medium
- albumen and silver on paper on card mount
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6 7/16 x 4 1/4 in. (16.4 x 10.8 cm)
- Type
- cabinet photographs
- albumen prints
- portraits
