by Thomas Busciglio-Ritter | Apr 30, 2021 | Location, Unknown Location
Perhaps unexpectedly, various landscapes appear throughout the University of Delaware Baltimore Collection of portrait photographs. Sprinkled here and there, some are real, some are fake. Some were likely lush green, some others grey. And some, even, are fading away....
by Simone Renee Austin | Dec 18, 2017 | Unknown Location
How does one begin to research the personal photographs of someone unknown and from an era that is long past? Vintage portraits of unidentified sitters by unknown photographers present particular research concerns such as the possibility of not knowing the...
by Bridget Killian | Dec 6, 2017 | Location, Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice, Unknown Location
The photograph [Ten-month-old portrait of Gladis May Kell(e?)y] features a depiction of a black infant wearing a dress and close-fitting bonnet seated in an outdoor setting.[1] This object has an inscription written on its mount below the image. The mount is grey in...
by Allison Robinson | Dec 4, 2017 | Location, Unknown Location
The students of Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive worked tirelessly to uncover the provenance, date range, and techniques used to produce the photographs of the Baltimore Collection, as well as the identities of the sitters and photographers. We...
