[African American woman]

[African American woman]

Photograph

[African American woman]

ca. 1862
Tintype with applied color
Image: 2 5/8 × 2 in. (6.7 × 5.1 cm) (1/6 plate)
Case: 3 3/4 × 3 3/8 × 1 in. (9.5 × 8.6 × 2.5 cm)
Purchase
1969.0205.0011
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 578
Entry 578 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Negro slave woman, middle-aged, well-dressed, jewels, etc. Cheeks tinted. Ferrotype. In nice conventional gutta percha case. From Mrs. Walk. (5.10)
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