Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Cabinet card of an unidentified man, child, and woman by Ball & Sons
1897-1902
Seattle, King County, Washington, 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 black-and-white photograph of an unidentified man, girl, and woman photographed at the Ball & Sons studio in Seattle, Washington. The photo is mounted on dark-colored pasteboard stamped with the Ball & Sons logo and store location on the bottom of the front side. The woman sits on the far right in a dark jacket and her hair pulled up on top of her head. The girl stands to her right between the adults and is wearing a white dress with her head resting in her right hand. The man sits to her right and wears a dark suit and a trim beard. Handwritten on the reverse of the mount in graphite is the text "Pa and Ma".
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Catalog reference: 2014.37.28.21
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