HA00860

Title: Woman in striped dress, holding a fan
Year: between 1885 and 1910
Photographer: Harper, Alvan S., 1847-1911.
Courtesy of Alvan S. Harper collection from Florida Memory, State Library & Archives of Florida, www.floridamemory.com.

In this photo, taken between 1855 and 1910, a fashionably dressed woman holds a decorative fan. The dress, with it matching stripes, looks as if it had been made by an excellent dressmaker, perhaps the woman herself. Photo was taken in a Tallahassee, Florida studio.

To learn more about African American History and Photography at “Through A Lens Darkly” TALD documentary and multimedia project - Digital Diaspora Family Reunion DDFR www.DDFR.tv Chimpanzee Productions, Inc.

Check out the new trailer for “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” @USA Projects. bit.ly/L06o6j

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