Cabinet card of Gracy Elen Crawford
- Photograph by
- Green, John, American
- Subject of
- Crawford, Gracy Elen, American, born 1892
- Date
- November 1892
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on card mount
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 5 1/2 × 3 7/8 in. (13.9 × 9.8 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in. (16.3 × 10.6 cm)
- Caption
- John Green was a Black photographer who owned a photography studio in Denver, Colorado that he operated in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
- Description
- A cabinet card photograph of a baby, identified as six-month-old Gracy Elen Crawford, captured by photographer John Green. The baby wears a long gown. Her eyes are wide open as she gazes at the viewer. Directly behind the baby is a hanging curtain of dark patterned cloth that drapes over the chair the baby is seated on. The wrist and sleeve of an adult is partially visible behind the right-hand edge of the curtain. Below the image is text, printed in ink along the bottom margin, that reads [John Green, - Corner of 18th and/ Market Streets - Denver Colo.]. The back of the photograph contains an inscription that identifies the subject and date of the photograph.
- Place made
- Denver, Denver County, Colorado, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- cabinet photographs
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2014.37.13.11
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.