Photograph of a female dancer in costume
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Unidentified Woman or Women
- Rose Room, American
- Date
- 1952-1953
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (24.5 × 18.8 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.5 cm)
- Description
- A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a female dancer in costume performing at the Rose Room. The dancer is depicted standing on a raised stage. She is wearing a satin bikini top lined with two rows of sequins, a sequined collar, sequined lined cuffs, and long, polka dot skirt with a sequin lined waistband. She is wearing a spade-shaped, sequin lined headdress with a waist length veil that falls behind her. In the background are audience members seated around tables. There are no inscriptions on the front or back of the photograph.
- Place captured
- Cliffwood, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- 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
- 2013.46.25.98
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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