Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Carte-de-visite depicting two men standing arm-in-arm
1868
Richmond, Virginia, 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 carte-de-visite depicting two (2) men standing arm-in-arm, facing the viewer. An unidentified white man is depicted on the left and an unidentified black man is depicted on the right. The man on the left is wearing a three piece suit with a dark suit jacket and matching medium toned pants and vest. He is also wearing a white dress shirt and a dark western style tie. His proper left arm is linked through the arm of the man on the right. He is holding a banded boater hat in his proper left hand at waist level and is resting on a cane held in his proper right hand. The man on the right is wearing a suit with a dark jacket, light pants, light vest, and a white shirt. He holds a black hat in his proper left hand by his side. The verso is white.
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Catalog reference: 2018.17.8
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