Photo of the Johnston family
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Dr. Johnston, Albert C., American, 1900 - 1988
- Johnston, Thyra A., American, 1903 - 1995
- Johnston, Albert Chandler Jr., American, 1925 - 2014
- Breen, Anne Baumann, American, 1930 - 2004
- Johnston, Paul, American, born 1935
- Johnston, Donald Vincent, American, 1929 - 2007
- Date
- 1949
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
- H x W: 7 3/4 × 10 5/16 in. (19.7 × 26.2 cm)
- Description
- A photograph of the Johnston family. Starting to the left of the photograph depicts a tall woman in a white dress smiling looking directly into the camera. To the right of her is a man wearing a suit and bowtie. He has a mustache and is holding a cigarette or cigar in his right hand. To his right is a shorter woman also smiling and in a white dress looking directly into the camera. To the right of her is a young boy in a dark suit with only his top button buttoned and a bowtie around his neck. Behind him and slightly to the right is a man looking towards his right smiling. He is in a dark suit and wearing a dark necktie. To the right of him is a man wearing a white naval uniform looking towards his left smiling with both hands behind his back.
- Place used
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Topic
- Colorism
- Identity
- Independent films
- Segregation
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2013.118.55
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible