[Woman hanging laundry]
Photograph
[Woman hanging laundry]
ca. 1888
Albumen silver print
Image: 2 3/8 × 2 7/16 in. (6.1 × 6.2 cm)
Paper: 4 × 3 1/16 in. (10.1 × 7.8 cm)
Mount: 5 1/4 × 4 3/16 in. (13.3 × 10.7 cm)
Gift of Laura S. Albright
1974.0245.0024
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TL: Hanging up clothes \ R.K. Albright \ 730 W. Ferry St. 730W [crossed out]; inscribed in pencil on mount recto, TRC: 42; printed in black ink on mount verso, C: THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS MADE WITH THE \ KODAK CAMERA, \ MANUFACTURED ONLY BY \ THE EASTMAN DRY PLATE AND FILM CO., \ ROCHESTER N.Y. \ BRANCH OFFICE: \ 115 OXFORD STREET, \ LONDON. \ stamped in black ink on mount verso, BC: 4322
TextThe porthole shape and the printed back indicate that this photograph was made with a Kodak No. 1 camera, shortly after George Eastman introduced it in 1888. These new devices were so easy to use that many upper-middle-class parents gave them to their children as gifts. Raymond K. Albright was around thirteen years old when he made this photograph. He was the first son of John J. Albright, who was a businessman, philanthropist, and one of Buffalo’s leading socialites at the turn of the twentieth century. Domestic chores—such as that which the unidentified woman seen here is doing—would have been a familiar sight for the young Albright as he experimented with the camera.
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
