Object Details
- Description
- Black and white photograph of a man. Wearing a dark suit and light shirt, a mustache and a light colored fedora, he gazes straight ahead, slightly to the viewer's left. A star within a circle, possibly a Masonic symbol, is partially visible under his open coat. The photograph is surrounded by a white margin. Under the photograph, handwritten in pencil are the words "by L. Harper Jr. / Artist. Galveston Tex/ 1916." The photograph is set in a brown cardboard folder with two leaves. On the reverse of the back flap are the words "Electra Mat Folder/ Gray Brown/ Size/ Folder/ For Photograph per 100/ F/ 6 1/4 x 9 1/4/ Cabinet Square/ $8.00/ 50 in a box/ SCHAEFFER PHOTO SUPPLY CO. / HOUSTON, TEXAS."
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Lucius Harper, American, 1867 - 1920
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- 1916
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 5 1/4 × 3 7/16 in. (13.4 × 8.8 cm)
- H x W (Folder (open)): 9 3/16 × 12 3/8 in. (23.3 × 31.5 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
