Object Details
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Mary Church Terrell (TA2017.13.10.2). She is depicted seated in profile from the waist up. The left side of her face is visible. She is wearing a light colored beaded and fringed evening dress. She wears her hair in a loose up-do. There is a photographer's stamp embossed in the bottom left corner. There are several handwritten inscriptions on the reverse, one reading [Mary Church Terrell] and the another reading [Defender].
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Addison N. Scurlock, American, 1883 - 1964
- Subject of
- Mary Church Terrell, American, 1863 - 1954
- Owned by
- Mary Church Terrell, American, 1863 - 1954
- Date
- ca. 1910
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ray and Jean Langston in memory of Mary Church and Robert Terrell
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image and Sheet): 7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
