- On View
- Slavery and Freedom Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Revels, Hiram Rhodes, American, 1827 - 1901
- Date
- early 1870s
- Medium
- cartes-de-visite : albumen on wove paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 3 11/16 × 2 3/16 in. (9.3 × 5.5 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 3 7/8 × 2 7/16 in. (9.9 × 6.2 cm)
- Description
- An albumen carte-de-visite portrait of United States Senator Hiram Revels. A dark haired man, Hiram Revels, is seated in a profile position with his proper right side facing the camera. He wears a tall bright collar, dark tie, and dark single breast jacket with two buttons on the torso. The photograph is on original plain mount; the mount is cropped to image along bottom edge. On the back of the photograph, written in pencil, from top to bottom, is: [Hiram Revels / 1st African-American / Senator / Mississippi 1870 / Revells].
- Place depicted
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Type
- cartes-de-visite
- albumen prints
- Topic
- American South
- Education
- Government
- Men
- Politics
- Preaching
- Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
- Religion
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2019.28.37
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.