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A Sweeper Girl of the Lowest Caste

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

A Sweeper Girl of the Lowest Caste

Unknown

Date
1850s
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9.4 x 6.8 cm (3 11/16 x 2 11/16 in.) Mount: 27.5 x 23.1 cm (10 13/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Object type
Photograph
Classification
Photographs
Object number
2005.100.948.1 (22a)
Credit line
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Original Met record Artist authority

Subjects and terms

  • Girls
  • Men
  • Women
  • Flowers

The Met object ID 287766. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.