Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Photographic print of Jennie Garner
late 1880s
Smithsonian NMAAHC collection
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph of Jennie Garner. The portrait captures Garner from the chest up as she faces forward. She is wearing a jacket with zig-zag edges over a patterned shirt and a jeweled choker necklace. The photograph has a rectangular mat frame and backing, the front with a thick, tan inner border and thin, tan outer border. On the back is a handwritten inscription handwritten in pencil: [Mrs Jennie Garner / to here sister / Mrs. E. A. Townsend].
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Catalog reference: 2011.36.2
