Object Details
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She is wearing a black sirt and sitting. She is holding a guitar and looking up and to her right. A fur coat is on the left side of the image and white, patterned wall and darkened window are in the back ground. Handwritten vertically on the sheet to the left of the image is “LEEDS TOWN HALL 1957.” 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): 6 7/8 × 6 7/8 in. (17.4 × 17.5 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
- Type
- black-and-white photographs
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
