photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A20.21
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 20
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of a Cherokee (?) man, seated in a fringed chair, wearing a three piece suit, and a bow tie; United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- 19thC(mid)
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 34.20 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 13.40 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.20 centimetres (mount)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related information: This image was found with a contents page numbered A20/1 which reads:
"CHEROKEES.
Indian Territory.
No.66. COLONEL DOWNING.
No.67. RICHARDS AND COLONEL DOWNING.
No.68. COLONEL ADAIR.
No.69. SAMUEL SMITH.
No.70.BORUM DAVIS.
No.71. CAPTAIN SCRAPER.
No.72. BINGO.
These numbers are Jackson Catalogue numbers. The list can be found in PicDoc 283, and this is the reason A20 starts from number 2.
These numbers are Jackson Catalogue numbe
The document rs.
Both documents can be found in PicD279.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Image faded. Foxing on the mount. Mount is torn. Image is coming away from the mount.
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- The 'Disposal book of the Salisbury South Wilts and Blackmore Museum No. 1 1928-1952' reports the disposal of a: "Photographs of North American Indians and miscellanea" given to the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography of the British Museum. It is dated 24th February 1932.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,A20.21
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A20/1597 (Old BM Blackmore Collection Number)