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

317 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Washburn, William W.; photographer. Young nanny with a baby on the table. Albumen photograph, 3 3 / 4 x 2 1 / 4 inches, on original mount with photographer’s backstamp; moderate foxing and minor wear, inscribed in pencil on verso “Moira[?] Abrams.” New Orleans, circa 1860s [500/750] The “nanny” looks to be about 10 years old. Washburn had his studio at 113 Canal Street from about 1863 to 1870. 317 318 318 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Moller, A.W.; photographer. Group of 3 African-American scenes in Georgia. Albumen prints, promenade-card format (each about 4 1 / 2 x 7 1 / 2 inches) on original photographer’s mounts; minimal wear; numbered in ink on verso. Thomasville, GA, circa 1890s [400/600] These come from a series titled “Views in and around Thomasville,” a town on Georgia’s southern border—the hometown of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American graduate of West Point. They show a man preparing to plow in front of a small log cabin; a man driving a cartload of lumber through a town street; and a cotton press in operation.