YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN IN DETROIT (POSSIBLY A SEAMSTRESS)

BLACK SEAMSTRESS_0001This terrific Cabinet Card is an image of a attractive young African-American woman posing for her photograph in the studio of Marratt in Detroit, Michigan. The Photographic Times (1884) states that Marratt was one of the principal photographic artists in Detroit. Note the scissors in the woman’s collar. The scissors suggest that she may be a seamstress.