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

314 316 314 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Holmes; photographer. African-American shoe shine boy with Capt.W. N. Lane. Albumen photograph, 3 1 / 2 x 2 1 / 4 inches, on original mount with pencil caption on recto and photographer’s stamp on verso; minimal wear. Norfolk, VA, undated [800/1,200] Captain Lane is in civilian dress; this could be an image from shortly after the war. 315 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Daguerreotype portrait of an African-American woman. Sixth-plate daguerrotype in original case, 2 3 / 4 x 2 1 / 4 inches to sight; case worn and rebacked with cloth, some spotting to image. Np, undated [400/600] 315 316 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Portrait of a butler? Whole-plate tintype, 8 1 / 4 x 6 1 / 4 ; vertical crease with slight loss to image, mount remnants on verso. In frame with gilt mat. Np, circa 1860s [250/350] A portrait of a well-dressed man—whether an affluent freedman or a house servant, we cannot say.