Object Details
- Description
- A black and white photograph portrait of a woman identified as "Shiela."
- Shiela is pictured from the shoulders up, her body facing the right side of the image and her face turned in 3/4 view to look directly at the camera. She is wearing a light colored garment, with a chain necklace partially visible at her neck and two stud earrings in her proper right ear. She is in front of a plain gray background. On the verso is an adhesive label with the Eyejammie.com logo and [Title: Adelphi Photo Dept. Student Work: Shiela / Photographer: Harry Allen] in printed black text.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Harry Allen, American, born 1964
- Subject of
- Adelphi University, American, founded 1896
- Date
- ca. 1982
- 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 (Sheet): 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
- H x W (Image): 12 13/16 × 9 13/16 in. (32.5 × 25 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
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