Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white photographic print of Sister Rosetta Tharpe performing. She is pictured singing in front of a microphone, a guitar strapped around her shoulders, looking up with both arms raised and her mouth open in song. SShe is wearing a light-colored dress. A man playing a trombone is visible in the background. The back of the photograph is signed at center in black ink with “Terry Cryer / ©.”
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Terry Cryer, British, 1934 - 2017
- Subject of
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American, 1915 - 1973
- Date
- 1957
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gayle Wald
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 7 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (18.9 × 17.9 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.3 cm)
- Type
- black-and-white photographs
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
