Photograph of a woman

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 silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a woman. She is depicted from the hips up, facing forward with her proper right elbow resting on a white block in the lower left corner of the image, and her proper left arm extended upwards with her proper left hand resting on the back of her head. She is wearing a black dress with a lacey bodice and a solid black skirt. She is wearing black, lacey, fingerless, opera gloves that match her dress bodice. She is looking towards the bottom left edge of the image. The photographer's mark, printed in the negative, located in the bottom left corner reads, [James J. / Kriegsmann / N.Y.]. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.

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