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(PHOTOGRAPHY—EARLY AND CASED IMAGES.)
Outdoor photo-
graph of a seated, well-dressed, black man, with his white wife and their
interracial child.
Half-plate tintype, in a contemporary case.
Np, circa 1880’s-1900
[2,000/3,000]
AN UNCOMMON IMAGE OF A MIXED COUPLE
.
While certainly not unheard of, interracial mar-
riages were no doubt unusual. “Miscegenation,” or mixing of the races was considered socially
unacceptable, if not unthinkable in much of the North as well as the South, until relatively more
recent times.
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(PHOTOGRAPHY—
EARLY AND CASED IMAGES.)
Group of 32 cabinet cards and
five cartes-de-visites. Photographs
of African-Americans.
Ohio, circa 1860’s to 1890’s
[300/400]
Unfortunately, we were unable to identify
these people other than the fact that the
images all came from one source, and virtually all
are identified as being from Ohio.
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