Dorothy Tucker with Fan

Color photograph, Fancy Portrait, Fashion, Supports, The Stage

Dimensions

Image Dimensions: 16.5 x 8.6 cm
Support Dimensions: 22.0 x 11.3 | 22.6 x 12.3 cm (vertical oblong folder)

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Blue Prince

Shown opened within its tissue-guarded, ribbon tied folder, Dorothy Tucker, not quite 13 years old, strikes a pose with a fan inside her home on Staten Island, New York. She was most likely “performing” a part in a school play for “F.L.C.”, presumed to be the photographer of this work who was certainly an acquaintance of Dorothy’s amateur photographer father Charles Rollins Tucker.

print notes, presentation folder recto: In block, hand-inscribed letters:

F.L.C.

additionally dated in blue ink: May 18, 1912

annotated in graphite along lower margin: Dorothy Tucker

Title of this work provided by this archive.