Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

238 c   (DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Warren, George Kendall; photographer. The classic carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass. Albumen photograph, 3 3 / 4 x 2 1 / 4 inches, on original mount with photographer’s backstamp; minimal toning and soiling. Boston, circa 1879 [1,200/1,800] Perhaps the best-known portrait of Douglass, used for the frontispiece of his third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Stauffer, et al., Picturing Frederick Douglass 96. 239 c   DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Signature on card. Signed “Very truly yours, Fred’k Douglass, 1878” on card, 2 3 / 4 x 5 inches; mount remnants on verso. Np, 1878 [400/600] 239 238