Object Details
- Description
- A photograph of Maggie Hickman taken by Lay Brothers Photography in Nashville, Tennessee. Hickman is captured from the chest up and facing slightly to the left. She is wearing a graduation cap and gown while wearing her hair low. The photograph has an oval mat frame and backing. The front, bottom right corner is stamped with [Lay / NASHVILLE, TENN.]. The photograph and mat have suffered several surface abrasions and the cardboard backing has several watermarks. On the back, the sitter's name at center in pencil [Maggie Hickman].
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Lay Brothers Photography, American, 1911 - 1928
- Subject of
- Maggie Thomas Hickman Gant, American, 1892 - 1980
- Owned by
- Dr. Arthur Melvin Townsend Sr., American, 1875 - 1959
- Date
- 1911-1915
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on card mount
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 5 × 3 7/16 in. (12.7 × 8.7 cm)
- H x W (Backing): 10 3/4 × 6 1/2 in. (27.3 × 16.5 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
