Collections Search Results
Your search found 12554 records from National Museum of American History collection.
Page 3 of 628
-
- ID Number
- PG.75.23.15
-
- Description (Brief)
- Tintype full-length portrait of an African-American woman standing by a studio rock prop mounted in an album page.
- Description
- The NMAH Photo History Collection (PHC) has over 3000 tintype photographs dating from the beginnings of the process in 1856 to the present. ‘Tintype’ was coined and became the favored name.
- Tintypes in the PHC are found in albums, the Kaynor Union Case collection and as individual photographs. The original tintype process patent was assigned to William and Peter Neff in 1856. William Neff died a short time later, but his son Peter, who named the process Melainotype, continued on with his work. The earliest tintypes in the PHC are a group of more than thirty Peter Neff Melainotypes, some of which date back to 1856 and contain notes written by Peter Neff. Shortly after the Melainotype, Victor Griswold introduced a very similar process on thinner, lighter iron plates and called them Ferrotypes. The PHC has tintypes ranging from rare large images between 5”x7” and 10”x12”down to small images cut to 6mm diameter to fit jewelry. The Melainotypes are between 1/6 plate and 4”x5” in size and many have indistinct images. There are also unexposed Melainotype plates including a pack of 1/6 plates and large whole-plates with four decorated oval borders that were designed to be cut into smaller quarter plates after exposure.
- The great majority of tintype photographs are studio portraits, including the very popular ‘Gem’ size (about ¾” x 1”). Almost every gem tintype in the PHC is an individual head and shoulders portraits, the only exceptions seen being a full length portrait and a head and shoulders portrait of a couple. Most of these gem portraits are in small gem albums designed to hold two to six gems per page. However, several gems are mounted on cartes-de-visite (CDV) size cards and set in specifically designed album pages. Some of these CDV mounted gems are in elaborate miniature frames attached to the card. The tintypes larger than gem size show a greater variety of subject matter, but still with a main focus on individual portraits, this is especially true of the smaller 1/16 and 1/9 plate images. Outdoor tintypes are rare. Of the few in the PHC, the most common outdoor subjects noted are people standing in front of their homes and photographs of people proudly standing with, or sitting on, their horse or horses and buggy. One of the largest tintypes is a 9”x 7” outdoor view of a row of townhouses with a couple standing on one of the balconies. There is also an outdoor tintype of men fishing along with another of their days catch.
- One common subject in tintype photography, as noted in text books, is the civil war soldier. The durability of the tintype meant that photographs taken in the field could be sent home. However, this category of tintype is not well represented in the PHC, with less than thirty noted due to the fact that the majority of the Smithsonian’s Civil War tintypes are located mainly in the Military History Collection. Most of the PHC examples of Civil War tintypes are in the Kaynor collection of cased images.
- A few of the tintypes in the PHC are hand colored. This coloring varies from light tinting of faces and hands to heavy overpainting that obscures the underlying tintype image. A number of the tintypes (about 30) depict people with the apparatus of their occupations. Some are posed studio shots and others appear to be photographs of people at their place of work. Among the occupational views are images of a doctor, grocery deliveryman, weavers, fireman, ice delivery man, craftsman, cobbler, shoe shiners, mail carrier, surveyor, pipe liners and other tintypes of people wearing work clothes and posing with tools. These include a unique full-length gem tintype of a man in work apron with a saw.
- ID Number
- PG.75.23.05
- accession number
- 317965
- catalog number
- 75.23.5
-
- Consultant
- Richardson, Deborra
- Collector
- Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-
- Names
- Chick Webb Orchestra
- Hampton University Choir
- Harmonizing Four
- Jubilee Singers
- Dett, Nathaniel
- Dorsey, Thomas A.
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
- Tharpe, Rosetta
- Tindley, Charles
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0653
-
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1996.0041.0410
- accession number
- 1996.0041
- catalog number
- 1996.0041.0410
-
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 1996.0041.0411
- accession number
- 1996.0041
- catalog number
- 1996.0041.0411
-
- Creator
- DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
- Identifier
- NMAH.AC.0300.S03
-
- Description
- This banjo was made by Robert Klinger in Washington, D.C. in 1981. The banjo is a reproduction of an African-American banjo (catalog number 1990.0164.01) that was made in the shop of the National Museum of American History’s conservation lab.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1981
- maker
- Klinger, Robert
- ID Number
- 1981.3019.01
- nonaccession number
- 1981.3019
- catalog number
- 1981.3019.01
-
- Description (Brief)
- black and white photograph of young African-American boy seated behind a wooden desk, arms folded in front of him and resting on desk top, wearing a white button down, collared shirt; printed on cardstock with border around it and "1923" printed below image
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1923
- ID Number
- 2017.0281.0005
- accession number
- 2017.0281
- catalog number
- 2017.0281.0005
-
- Description (Brief)
- color photograph; Self-portriat of shirtless African-American man shown from chest up; baseball cap/hat hanging on wall behind him along with various other objects; printed on Kodak paper
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2017.0281.0012
- accession number
- 2017.0281
- catalog number
- 2017.0281.0012
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white bust length portrait of a wearing a white turtleneck and dark hat placed at an angle on her head so it partially obscures the top right half of her face; curled, chin length hair is visible under her hat, she is looking directly at photographer; plain backdrop
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0005
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0005
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white bust length portrait of a woman wearing a crew neck sweater and heart pendant necklace on a chain; she has short spikey hair; plain backdrop; photobooth
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0007
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0007
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white bust length portrait of a woman wearing a dark jacket with white faux fur at collar, lighter colored button down shirt underneath; her hair is partially pulled back and curled; painted backdrop; photobooth
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0008
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0008
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white bust length portrait of a woman wearing a floral patterned dress with v-neck and small cap on her head; hair is pulled back and she is wearing a brooch at the point of her v-neck collar; photobooth photograph
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0001
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0001
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white portrait of a woman with short, curled hair, hoop earrings wearing a white jacket; faux window with star and moon background and a curtain at right; photobooth photograph
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0002
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0002
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white bust length portrait of a woman with a white scarf wrapped around her head, wearing a dark dress patterned with white flowers
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0003
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0003
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white bust length studio portrait of a woman with painted backdrop; woman is wearing a mostly white top with scoop neckline and short hair
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0004
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0004
-
- Description (Brief)
- portrait of an African-American woman; black and white bust length portrait of a woman wearing a crew neck sweater and heart pendant necklace on a chain; she has short spikey hair; plain backdrop
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2019.0013.0006
- accession number
- 2019.0013
- catalog number
- 2019.0013.0006
-
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2015.0074.0111
- catalog number
- 2015.0074.0111
- accession number
- 2015.0074
-
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2015.0074.0121
- catalog number
- 2015.0074.0121
- accession number
- 2015.0074
-
- Description (Brief)
- color snapshot, self-portrait of an African-American woman lying on freen carpeting, holding camera straight up and over face
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- 2015.0074.0172
- accession number
- 2015.0074
- catalog number
- 2015.0074.0172
Pages
Filter Your Results
Click to remove a filter:
- data source
- topic
- object type
- date
- place
- culture
-
set name
- Program in African American Culture Collection 2954
- Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files 2679
- Work and Industry: National Numismatic Collection 1591
- Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives 1317
- Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives / 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin negatives 1290
- West African Currency 854
- South African Currency 679
- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment 641
- Bernice Johnson Reagon Collection of African American Sacred Music 539
- Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.6: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by client 487
