Ambrotype of an African American Woman (1860s)

A Black woman wearing a polka-dot dress and wearing a pin of an American flag on her right breast.

Source: Ambrotype of an African American woman wearing a US flag pin, taken in the 1860s by an unidentified photographer. (Division of Work and Industry, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)

AP African American Studies Guide

Unidentified photographer, ambrotype of an African American Woman with the US flag (1860s)

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