Portrait of a daughter sitting with her father, 1870s.

[irisblue]

Source-https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsule/comments/1kxtbex/portrait_of_a_daughter_sitting_with_her_father/

I'm sorry I do not know how to carry reddit images here directly.

Google Lens did not give more info.

Look at his hands, he knew hard manual labor.

The girl is not having it sitting still aa long a time that photos took in the 1870, except for the fact Poppa is holding her on his lap.




Stolen history floating up

[TexLaProgressive]

1. Great picture

[irisblue]

2. Thank you for posting the image!

My cheap android phone only can do so much.

[TexLaProgressive]

6. Glad to.

I wasn't sure until I did a preview. iPhone will let you copy the link to a picture.Sometimes it works.

[BoRaGard]

3. Every picture tells a story

[LiberalLoner]

4. Beautiful photo and sobering history...thank you for posting this.

[irisblue]

5. This photo sat somewhere safe (well as safe as an AfAm could be 1870-2025)

Mother saved it? Poppa saved it? Someone gove it to the young miss?

So much to wonder about

[Karadeniz]

7. Adorable !!!

[ancianita]

8. from one reddit poster on the thread under this photo...

"The Library of Congress has a huge collection that was once a pretty powerful exhibit. It showed parents grandparents and children cross the south in the 1860s and 70s. There were obvious questionable lines of paternity reflected in the photographs of very loving families."

Maybe this one was part of that collection. The Library of Congress is a vast repository of untold American history.

[sl8]

13. Maybe. The furthest back I can find it online is from the SF Museum of Modern Art.

Interestingly, these seem to show that red "rouge" (?) was applied to both subjects' cheeks in the black & white photo/tintype.

The oldest good link I can find with TinEye is this 2013 Tumbler post:

https://joaoalvimcortes.tumblr.com/post/39779207893/tuesday-johnson-ca-1870s-hand-tinted

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870’s, [hand-tinted tintype portrait of shy-looking girl sitting on her father’s lap]
via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Posted on January 5, 2013
[...]

The SFMOMA link provided in the Tumbler post is dead, but the Internet Archive captured this in January, 2013:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130109015017/http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/9364

Unknown
Untitled [African-American man and girl]
1870s
photograph | tintype
Not currently on view in the museum
Untitled [African-American man and girl]

https://web.archive.org/web/20121127064701im_/

3 1/8 in. x 4 1/8 in. (7.94 cm x 10.48 cm)
Acquired 1994
Collection SFMOMA
Foto Forum purchase
94.521

There are several "Foto Forums" listed online, but I haven't looked any further in that direction.

[ancianita]

15. Interesting. Thanks. The important thing is that they exist, and they fill out the reality of US history, which

is crucial to the truth telling America must commit to about itself, warts and all.

[3catwoman3]

9. What a tender image.

I wish we knew more about about it.

[LoisB]

10. The hell his eyes have seen is forever imprinted. Thank you for posting this.

The

[pansypoo53219]

11. thanks. cool website. i collect old photos myself.

[Goddessartist]

12. Beautiful picture!

Thank you for sharing this image.

[brer cat]

14. Beautiful image. Thanks, irisblue!