Historical Portrait
A child of Gee's Bend
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1 photomechanical print : halftone, with text. | Part of article from the New York Times Magazine, August 22, 1937, with half-length portrait of an African American child.
About this photograph
This half-length portrait of an African American child was published in the New York Times Magazine on August 22, 1937, as part of an article about Gee's Bend. Arthur Rothstein made the photograph.
The record identifies the child only as being from Gee's Bend, providing no name or other details. Records of this period often left Black subjects unnamed while identifying white ones, a practice that reflected the era's cataloguing conventions rather than the importance of the sitter.
The image appeared as a photomechanical halftone print with accompanying text in the magazine.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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