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●
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) FRATER-
NAL.
Cabinet card of an elegant
man, dressed in a quasi-military
manner: his light colored trousers
with a long dark stripe, with occa-
sional stars; a long frock-coat and
vest with stars; behind him and to his
left is the draped corner of the
American flag.
image size 5
5
⁄
8
x 4
7
⁄
8
inches, on the photographer’s card mount
with some light surface soil.
Philadelphia: Ohlers, circa 1870’s
[800/1,200]
This elegant gentleman, whom we were unable
to identify, would seem to be someone of impor-
tance; perhaps a veteran of the Civil War or a
high ranking member of a lodge. The photo-
graph itself might have been made from a
painting, or perhaps from a daguerreotype or
tintype that had been enhanced.
540
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) BATTEY,
CORNELIUS.
“Even-Tide. When dusky
twilight begins to gather ‘round
me.”
Silver print photograph 9 x 6
3
⁄
4
inches.
Image size printed on a slightly larger
piece of paper; with Battey’s blind stamp
of the photographic division of Tuskegee
Institute at the lower right corner; with
typed paper description attached to the
reverse.
Tuskegee, Ala., circa 1916-1918
[1,000/1,500]
A touching scene of an elderly black lady, possi-
bly an ex-slave, seated in the doorway to her
cabin, a corncob pipe in her mouth; her sewing
at her feet. Cornelius Marion Battey was the
resident photographer at Tuskegee from 1916
to his death in 1927.
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