- Photograph by
- Julius Hebbel Studio, American, 1870s - 1918
- Subject of
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Date
- 1900-1918
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper on cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W (Mounted): 7 5/16 × 5 1/8 in. (18.5 × 13 cm)
- H x W (Image): 5 1/2 × 3 7/8 in. (14 × 9.8 cm)
- Description
- A sepia tone cabinet card of a standing man posing with two chairs. The photograph is in portrait orientation. The unidentified man is depicted in full length. He is standing and facing the viewer with a serious expression on his face. He is holding the back of a wicker corner chair with his proper right hand and his proper left fist is resting akimbo on his hip. He is wearing a dark, buttoned up suit, a white dress shirt with rounded points, and a medium tone tie. The mustached man also has small, round, wired rim glasses on his face, and a white pocket square tucked into his proper left breast pocket. On the right is a tall, white chair with its back carved into a fleur-de-lis shape. The man is standing in front of a photographic backdrop. The backdrop is painted with a bucolic landscape that includes a church, a scenic river with a stone bridge, and a house. The rectangular photograph is adhered to a rectangular shaped cardboard mount. The primarily dark mount features a light tone band around the photograph as well as two additional embossed bands. There are small losses at the top left and right corners and a large loss in the bottom right corner. There are also small loses along the left and right edges. Printed gold script at the bottom center reads [[---?]ebbel Baltimore] with a flourish underneath each word. Between the two words is a gold stamp design of a painter’s palette with three brushes and the text [EXTRA / FINISH]. The back of the mount is gray and plain. Handwritten along the top left edge in pencil is the text [11748].
- Place captured
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- cabinet photographs
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Photography
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of James M. Baxter
- Object number
- 2021.13.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




