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No. 615, The Way the Negro Race is Dying Out: Mrs. Whitaker and her Children
- Photograph by
- Palmer, J. A., American, died 1896
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Unidentified Child or Children
- Date
- 1871-1896
- Medium
- albumen and silver on paper on card mount
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 3 3/4 × 6 3/8 in. (9.5 × 16.2 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 3 15/16 × 7 in. (10 × 17.8 cm)
- Description
- An albumen print mounted on a stereograph-sized card mount depicting a woman identified as Mrs. Whitaker and eleven (11) children. They are all siting on a wooden porch outside of a wooden building and looking at the camera. The two eldest children sit at the left frame on one side of a post, while the rest of the children sit in a row on the other side of the post. Mrs. Whitaker sits in a chair behind the long row of children nursing an infant. The image is mounted on orange cardboard that is pale pink on the reverse. A yellow paper label is adhered at the verso center with handwritten and printed text in black ink identifying the photographer, place, title, and number.
- Place captured
- Aiken, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Liljenquist Family Collection
- Portfolio/Series
- Aiken and Vicinity
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- cabinet photographs
- albumen prints
- Topic
- American South
- Children
- Families
- Motherhood
- Photography
- U.S. History, 1865-1921
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection
- Object number
- 2016.166.10
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions