Hand colored 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 hand-colored, black-and-white image of a woman. The woman’s back is to the viewer and she is depicted looking over her proper left shoulder towards the left edge of the image. She is wearing a tiara and a metallic fabric garment that drapes down the center of her back. Her cheeks have been tinted pink, her lips and earrings painted red, her eyebrows and lashes painted black, and the floral wallpaper behind her, tinted fluorescent yellow, fluorescent pink, and blue. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.

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