The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
A Serbian Romani family, photographed together. Most of Sherman's sitters lost their names at the door; this family kept theirs because a duplicate print carried a caption — the Rome family, identified a century later.
- Archive caption
- The Rome family, from Serbia
- Creator
- Augustus Francis Sherman
- Date
- 1906
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons (NYPL Digital Gallery strucID 481279)
- Rights
- Photographer died 1925; created ca. 1906; NYPL marks no known restrictions · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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Augustus Francis Sherman. “The Rome family, from Serbia.” 1906. Wikimedia Commons (NYPL Digital Gallery strucID 481279). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gypsy_family_from_Serbia.jpg. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 736, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/OBDCTXEkXJQR5s1q/736/face/910
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