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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman photographed by Ball & Sons

1897-1902

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A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the Ball & Sons studio in Seattle, Washington. The photo is mounted on light-colored pasteboard stamped with the Ball & Sons logo and store location on the bottom of the front side. The…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.20
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman photographed by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

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A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.51
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman photographed by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG

A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.53
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman photographed by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG

A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.65
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman photographed by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG

A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with decorative edges. The name and location of the photo studio are printed on the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.66
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman wearing a cameo by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

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A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.63
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman wearing a top hat and a fur stole

ca. 1895

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This black-and-white photograph attributed to Justus C. Swan has a full-length portrait of an unidentified woman standing at a quarter-turn to her left. She gazes in that direction with her head turned nearly in profile. She is wearing a dark-colored…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2016.111.10
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman with a branch border by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

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A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with the name and location of the photo studio printed on the front along the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.55
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman with a floral backdrop by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

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A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with decorative edges. The name and location of the photo studio are printed on the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.45.1
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of an unidentified woman with a floral backdrop by J. P. Ball & Son

1887-1900

FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG

A black-and-white photograph of an unidentified woman photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with decorative edges. The name and location of the photo studio are printed on the…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.45.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Bertha Searcy

late 19th century

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A cabinet card photograph of Bertha Searcy taken by B. C. Wallace in Huntsville, Alabama. Searcy’s portrait captures her from the waist up, fading out from her waist below. She is wearing a light colored dress with a dark color neckline that extends down…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.100
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Blanch E. Townsend

1896-1898

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A cabinet card photograph of Blanch E. Townsend by Herstein Gallery. She is shown, unsmiling, in the center of the image facing slightly to the left of the camera. Her upper torso and head are visible. Townsend is wearing a high-collar garment with ruffles…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.5.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Blanch E. Townsend

1896-1898

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A cabinet card photograph of Blanch E. Townsend by Herstein Gallery. She is shown, unsmiling, in the center of the image facing slightly to the left of the camera. Her upper torso and head are visible. Townsend is wearing a high-collar garment with ruffles…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.5.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Buffalo soldier wearing buffalo coat

ca. 1886

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A sepia tone cabinet card photograph of a Buffalo Soldier wearing a buffalo hide coat. Captured in studio against a solid backdrop, a young dark-haired Buffalo Soldier, holding a 25th Infantry uniform cap, stands gazing to his proper left. He wears a…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.10.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Carrie

1900-1905

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A faded cabinet card photograph of a little girl named Carrie taken by Johnson Photography in Chicago, IL. She is captured sitting on the edge of wicker-like furniture and wearing a light color dress with two bows on either side of her hair. At the bottom…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.97
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Chaplain Allen Allensworth

January 15, 1889

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A sepia tone cabinet card full body portrait photograph of Chaplain Allen Allensworth captured at Fort Bayard, January 15, 1889. The chaplain is captured standing in studio against a painted river scene backdrop and rests his proper left elbow on a faux…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2020.10.15
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Charles, Jake, and Tom Young photographed by J.P. Ball & Son

1890

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A black-and-white photograph of Charles, Jake, and Tom Young photographed at the J. P. Ball & Son studio in Helena, Montana. The photograph is mounted on light-colored pasteboard with decorative edges. The name and location of the photo studio are printed…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.37.28.42
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MUSEUM OBJECT
Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Col. Charles Young as a cadet at West Point

1889

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A large sepia-toned cabinet card of Charles Young as a cadet at West Point. The image appears as an oval shape on a rectangular photograph adhered to a rectangular card mount. Young is pictured from the chest up. He is in uniform, with an Eagle insignia…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.57.21
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Dr. Arthur M. Townsend taken by Hearn & Reeves

ca. 1895

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A cabinet card photograph of a young Dr. Arthur M. Townsend taken by Hearn & Reeves in Nashville, Tennessee. On the back are light pencil markings identifying the sitter [Townsend, Arthur]. The card has scalloped edges.

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.84
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Emma Alice Townsend

1893-1895

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A cabinet card photograph of Emma Alice Townsend by R. E. Hearn photography in Nashville, Tennessee. She wears a lace collar with a large medallion at her throat. Her dress demonstrates a corseted waist with billowing sleeves that gather at the forearm. At…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.4
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Eva Mae Rhodes

1897-1903

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A cabinet card photograph of Eva Mae Rhodes taken by Reeves Photography in Nashville, Tennessee. Rhodes is captured from the chest up, with the bottom of the portrait fading. She is wearing a dress with ruffled shoulders and her hair back. On the front of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.90.1
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Eva Mae Rhodes

1897-1903

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A cabinet card photograph of Eva Mae Rhodes taken by Reeves Photography in Nashville, Tennessee. Rhodes is captured from the chest up, with the bottom of the portrait fading. She is wearing a dress with ruffled shoulders and her hair back. On the front of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.90.2
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of Eva Mae Rhodes

1897-1903

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A cabinet card photograph of Eva Mae Rhodes taken by Reeves Photography in Nashville, Tennessee. Rhodes is captured from the chest up, with the bottom of the portrait fading. She is wearing a dress with ruffled shoulders and her hair back. On the front of…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.90.3
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Photographs and Still Images

Cabinet card of four Lewis family members

1898

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A cabinet card photograph of four persons with a shared surname, one adult and three children, taken by Taylor and Wyre in Nashville, Tennessee. On the back, the names of the four people handwritten in pencil: [Jennie Lewis / Georgia Lewis Davis / Bessie…

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.36.82
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