Data Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Description

A black-and-white stereograph group photograph of the original Jubilee Singers from Fisk University located in Nashville, Tennessee. The object consists of double photographs of the same image taken from two slightly different perspectives. Stereographs are distinctive among other stereoscopic photographs because they are photographic prints mounted on cards, From 1856 they were produced with twin-lens cameras, creating a three dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope.

Created by

American Missionary Association, American, 1846 - 1999

Photograph by

James Wallace Black, American, 1825 - 1896

Subject of

Fisk Jubilee Singers, American, founded 1871

Date

1872

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Medium

albumen, sodium chloride, silver nitrate on photographic paper and cardboard

Dimensions

H x W (Mount): 3 1/4 x 6 3/4 x 1/16 in. (8.3 x 17.1 x 0.2 cm)

Type

albumen prints

stereographs

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Media Arts-Photography

Object number

2011.57.23

Topic

African American

Education

HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)

Humanitarianism

Photography

Reconstruction (United States History, 1865-1877)

Religious groups

Spirituals (Music)

Place depicted

Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America

Restrictions & Rights

Public domain