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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) GRINAGE, WILLIAM.
Two officials of the Odd
Fellows, or knights of Pythias (supplied title.)
Silver print photograph, 12
1
⁄
2
x 15
inches, on the original photographer’s mount, bearing his blind-stamp in the bottom cen-
ter.
Maryland, circa 1890-1900
[600/800]
William Grinage (1866-1925) was an African American artist and photographer from
Frederick, Maryland. He is noted for his oil portrait of Francis Scott Key, author of the Star
Spangled Banner, which was commissioned in 1924 by the Kiwanis of Frederick, and today
hangs in the Frederick County Historical Society.
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.)
Papa and a Bunch of Negroes.
Silver print photograph,
5 x 7 inches on a contemporary cardboard mount, on which the above caption is written
in pencil; on the reverse, in pencil is “Indiana Coalminers.”
Indiana, circa 1890-1900
[600/800]
An interesting photograph of a group of African American miners with one white man who
does not appear to be their superior. Behind the first row of miners there are three men,. One of
whom holds a mule. Indiana possesses some of the larges untapped reserves of coal in the world.
There has been ongoing coalmining along the Wabash River since its discovery there in 1736.
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