Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

190 c   (DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.)Warren, George Kendall; photographer. Signed cabinet card of Douglass. Albumen photograph, 5 3 / 4 x 4 inches, on original mount with photographer’s gilt stamps on both sides, and signed “Fred’k Douglass” in ink in lower margin; tack holes in mount corners, a touch of dampstaining on lower edge. Boston, circa 1879 [10,000/15,000] Douglass has signed one of his more popular portraits, the one used as the frontispiece for his third autobiography. “Douglass at his most statesmanlike”—Stauffer, Picturing Frederick Douglass #96, and pages 55 and 110. We are aware of no other signed Douglass cabinet cards at auction since 1996.