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

353 c   (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Cased image of Rachael Richardson. Ninth-plate ambrotype, 3 x 2 1 / 2 inches, in “Hestonville Gallery” case, with manuscript slip reading “Rachael Richardson, servant in Heston family” laid in; abrasion to image surface, otherwise minor wear. Hestonville, PA, circa 1850s [1,500/2,500] Hestonville, PA is now a neighborhood in the western part of Philadelphia. The sitter was likely Rachael Richardson (circa 1781-1873), an unmarried African-American woman who was born in Pennsylvania. According to the census, she lived with the African-American Carpenter family in 1850 and 1860, and in the Home for Aged Colored Women in 1870. PHOTOGRAPHY LOTS 353 - 363