Tintype of Adela Harden

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A hand-tinted tintype portrait of a small child identified as Adela Harden, captured by photographer John Green. The child is wearing a light garment, patterned stockings, dark boots, and a pearl type necklace and is seated on a piece of furniture covered with a patterned cloth with fringed edges. The image is attached to a faded pink paper card. The rectangular image window has a rounded top. The image window is bordered by red lines. The outer edge of the card is bordered by a repeating pattern in red. The back of the card is stamped with an oval stamp, the border of which matches the border decoration around the image window. Inside the border are the words [John Green / PHOTOGRAPHER / Cor. 18th & Market Sets. / Denver Colorado.] Along the left edge handwritten vertical text that reads [Adela Harden].

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