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Caresse Crosby

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Artist: Volkmar K. Wentzel, 8 Feb 1915 - 10 May 2006
Sitter: Caresse Crosby, 20 Apr 1892 - 24 Jan 1970

Date: c. 1950

Type: Photograph

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 24.3cm x 19.5cm (9 9/16" x 7 11/16"); Sheet: 25.3cm x 20.3cm (9 15/16" x 8")

Topic: Costume\Jewelry\Necklace; Printed Material\Book; Home Furnishings\Furniture\Table; Printed Material\Papers; Nature & Environment\Plant\Flower; Interior\Domestic\Bedroom; Home Furnishings\Furniture\Bed; Home Furnishings\Mirror; Caresse Crosby: Female; Caresse Crosby: Literature\Writer\Poet; Caresse Crosby: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist; Caresse Crosby: Literature\Writer\Novelist; Caresse Crosby: Science and Technology\Inventor; Caresse Crosby: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Feminist; Caresse Crosby: Literature\Publisher\Book; Portrait

Place: United States\District of Columbia\Washington

Credit Line: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Volkmar K. Wentzel

Restrictions & Rights: Usage conditions apply

Object number: NPG.96.90

Data Source: National Portrait Gallery