- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Middleton, Velma, American, 1917 - 1961
- Date
- ca. 1942
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 9 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (23.5 × 18.7 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 9 3/4 × 7 15/16 in. (24.8 × 20.2 cm)
- Description
- A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of Velma Middleton. Middleton is depicted wearing a white shirt with ruffled collar and button-front sleeveless dress. A metal brooch is pinned over her proper left shoulder, next to letters embroidered on the shoulder of the dress. She is holding a piece of paper in her proper right hand, and her proper left hand dangles by her side. She has a small watch is on her proper left wrist. Middleton has signed the front of the image in blue ink in the bottom right corner: [Love to / My Sis. / I'se A Muggin / Velma]. There are no inscriptions on the back of the image.
- Collection title
- The Laura Cathrell Show-Down Magazine Collection
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2013.46.25.25
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




