Albert Biles
[Bethel A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania]

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • [Bethel A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania]
Date1910s
Place depictedWest Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage (at open): 6 × 9 3/16 in. (15.2 × 23.4 cm)
Sheet (at open): 6 × 9 3/16 in. (15.2 × 23.4 cm)
Mount (top): 9 7/16 × 12 11/16 in. (24 × 32.3 cm)
Mount (bottom): 9 15/16 × 13 3/16 in. (25.3 × 33.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Clinton T. Willour in memory of Eugene L. Foney
Object number2020.152
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenancePrivate collection; [Ian Brabner, Rare Americana, LLC, June 2019]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in cream, recto, lower right: Albert Biles // WEST CHESTER. PA

[no verso inscriptions]

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