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…In 2005, the National Museum of American History acquired this ambrotype of a washerwoman for the Union Army in Richmond, Va. On her dress is pinned an American flag that was hand-painted after the image was made and before it was cased. The description of the photograph comes from the back of a gallery dealer’s business card, on which he had transcribed the text from a disintegrating piece of paper inside the case. Though there are many anonymous, unremarkable portraits in homes, libraries and museums, this photograph emerges during a tumultuous time in American history, and black women were not often depicted in this formal way. … ~via NPR picture show

…In 2005, the National Museum of American History acquired this ambrotype of a washerwoman for the Union Army in Richmond, Va. On her dress is pinned an American flag that was hand-painted after the image was made and before it was cased. The description of the photograph comes from the back of a gallery dealer’s business card, on which he had transcribed the text from a disintegrating piece of paper inside the case.

Though there are many anonymous, unremarkable portraits in homes, libraries and museums, this photograph emerges during a tumultuous time in American history, and black women were not often depicted in this formal way. …

~via NPR picture show

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    This speaks so many volumes about several Black women’s complicated histories within the US and the ideas of patriotism,...
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