Lot 16V
(AFRICAN AMERICANA) Album containing 94 photographs of multiple generations of an extended southern middle class family.
With many cartes-de-visite and several cabinet card portraits from Georgia and South Carolina, including Rev. A.W. Lowe of Augusta, and a few silver prints. Albumen prints, on the original mounts, many identified, and with the photographers' credits on mounts recto and/or verso. 4to, calf, ornamented with a horseshoe on the front cover, worn and defective; lacks backstrip, contents detached. 1860s-early 1900s
Estimate $700 - 1,000
WITH--A pair of ninth-plate ambrotypes, one of a young boy and the other of a beautifully-dressed older woman in a bonnet; the second in a Union case. 1860s.
From the Collection of Harry Amdur.