Portrait of a Hendler's Ice Cream Deliveryman
c. 1925
Artist, American, active c. 1920s
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print (real photo postcard)
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Credit Line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
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Dimensions
image: 12.6 × 7.3 cm (4 15/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
sheet: 13.8 × 8.7 cm (5 7/16 × 3 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2023.39.152
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Hendler Estate auction, Baltimore); Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top left in graphite: "The Velvet Kind" / Hendler's Ice Cream Co. Balto. MD; top right: 16.10.REL / AF096; center left printed in black ink perpendicular: ELECTRIC STUDIO, / 406 W. MAIN ST., NORFOLK, VA. / 612 E. BALTIMORE ST., BALTIMORE, MD.