Photograph by
Unidentified
Subject of
Unidentified Child or Children
Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
Owned by
Sinclair, Clayton, American
Sinclair, Hazel, American
Date
1970-1989
Medium
dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
Dimensions
H x W (Image): 3 1/8 × 4 1/8 in. (7.9 × 10.4 cm)
H x W (Sheet): 3 7/16 × 4 7/16 in. (8.8 × 11.3 cm)
Description
A color photograph of a small child playing with two cats on the porch of the Rock Rest Tourist Home. The child is seated cross-legged in the corner of a porch, just to the right of a white metal door. The child is wearing a yellow shirt and a maroon coat with a fur edged hood. The child is holding a ginger cat in their lap with their proper right hand. The child’s proper left hand is petting a gray cat on the floor next to the child. To the left of the child is a brown door mat. In the right foreground is a potted plant with three pink flowers. The porch floor is gray, the walls of the house are white, and there are two windows on the right side of the image. The photograph has a white frame. A repeating embedded pattern on the verso reads [THIS PAPER / MANUFACTURED / BY KODAK] and a red stamp near the left center with the Kodak logo and red text that reads [PRINT / MADE / BY / KODAK / K / DEC[?] [---?]].
Place collected
Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
Place captured
Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
Collection title
The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
Classification
Photographs and Still Images
Type
chromogenic color prints
Topic
Amusements
Black Enterprise
Black interiors
Children
Domestic life
Rural life
Segregation
Travel
Credit Line
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
Object number
2011.12.54.9
Restrictions & Rights
Unknown – Restrictions Possible
Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5a8f95464-e1a3-498a-bf21-70485b5e01af

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