Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Cabinet photograph of a woman
ca. 1885
Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
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 gelatin silver chloride printing-out paper print on cabinet card of an unidentified woman posed for a studio portrait. Captured in studio with a veranda and nature themed backdrop, a dark-haired woman wears a floor length plaid dress with narrow bodice, and a dark, fitted, long sleeve coat. Her proper left hand rests on an ornate column prop and she stands on a fibrous rug-like object. At the bottom of the photograph card, from left to right in brown in is: [FORT SMITH,C. C. Cook,ARKANSAS.]. There are serveral numerical inscriptions on the reverse of the cabinet card.
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2013.244.11
