“Doing My Best” [Young Man in Suit Standing on Porch] [from the Photo Album of an African-American Woman]
Unknown American, American
about 1920s or 30s
Gelatin silver print
Image: 3 1/8 × 2 1/8 in. (7.9 × 5.4 cm)
Sheet: 3 9/16 × 2 1/2 in. (9 × 6.4 cm)
Mount: 5 1/16 × 2 7/8 in. (12.9 × 7.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Peter J. Cohen
2017.62.86
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on mount, above image, in white ink: Floyd / Lonesome, lonesome; inscribed, on mount, beneath image, in white ink: Doing my best
Provenance
Peter J. Cohen, New York, New York; given to present collection, 2017.
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