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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.)
Photograph of
Douglass by J.P. Ball, an African American photographer.
Typical carte-de-visite
with Ball’s Cincinnati logo on the reverse.
Cincinnati, circa 1867
[3,000/4,000]
Photographer James Presley Ball (1825-1904) was born to free parents in Frederick County, VA.
Ball learned daguerreotype photography from the black Boston photographer, John B. Bailey, while he
was in White Sulphur Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia). After an unsuccessful attempt at a stu-
dio in Cincinnati in 1845, Ball became an itinerant photographer traveling to Pittsburgh, and
throughout Ohio, finally settling again in Cincinnati in 1849. Images of African Americans by Ball
are quite uncommon; this image of Frederick Douglass done in 1867 is rare.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.)
Photograph
of an older Douglass.
Carte-de-viste photograph
SIGNED BY DOUGLASS IN THE BORDER
BENEATH THE IMAGE
.
Boston: Warren’s, circa 1889
[2,500/3,500]
A fine image of an older, very grey Douglass, probably taken around the time of his appointment to
Hayti.
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