544
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) EARLY AND CASED IMAGES.
Cowboy and his horse
(supplied title.) Silver print photograph, 4
7
⁄
8
x 3
7
⁄
8
inches, on a photographer’s mount; some
light surface abrasion, tips of mount lightly rubbed. (WGC)
Np, circa 1900-1910
[500/750]
A posed studio photograph of a black cowboy in full regalia.
545
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) LAW ENFORCEMENT.
The Sheriff
(supplied title.)
Real photo post card of a black man, in a long, Western style overcoat, his revolver placed
on a small side table next to him; a faint wrinkle to the right of his left arm.
[600/800]
This is a posed studio shot, and one can see the background drapes faintly behind the subject.
546
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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) HAVENS, PIERRE.
The Blackville Serenade.
Large,
11 x 14 inch sepia toned albumen photograph, on the photographer’s original mount *
with the popular tinted color post card that was made from the photo. Together, two
pieces.
Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1891
[600/800]
A wonderful image that is stereotypical however sympathetic and important in a musical sense.
Here we have an image of an actual “cigar box” guitar. “Cigar-box” guitars were functional,
home-made instruments, quite popular within the black community. This is one of the photog-
rapher’s better-known pieces, reproduced in a number of forms, the post-card being one of the
more popular.
545
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