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Title: [Gem tintype of an African American girl in striped dress]
Creator: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1870?
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Small format "gem" tintype portrait of an African American girl wearing a striped dress with a high collar. Tintype is sealed with paper on verso of mount. Decorative blindstamping surrounds oval viewing window on recto of mount.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
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Title devised by cataloger.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : tintype ; plate 24 x 18 mm, in mount 98 x 60 mm
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb1135286h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Photographs
African Americans

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