[ Photographs ] (Southern United States) African-Americans Unusual album containing 42 prints of various locales in the southern U. S., most from St. Augustine, Florida, as well as from Louisiana and possibly Cuba and Puerto Rico, and featuring

[ Photographs ] (Southern United States) African-Americans Unusual album containing 42 prints of various locales in the southern U. S., most from St. Augustine, Florida, as well as from Louisiana and possibly Cuba and Puerto Rico, and featuring several photographs of African-Americans, in the cotton and orange fields, posed on the steps of a prosperous-looking home, before a wooden shack, and street scenes views of Anglo settlers, possibly in New Orleans; a band of Seminole Indians; a number of elegaic views of the region's flora, including Spanish moss-laden trees and 57 views of England, 16 by Valentine and Wilson. Albumen prints, various sizes, 4.5 x 3.25 and smaller. 8vo, lacks covers and spine; contents clean. Middle 1860s E2000-2500 An Important Group Of Southern Views. The American section of this album contains a series of scarce and early photographs apparently of St. Augustine, Florida, some of which were taken by the photographer W. H. Cushing. These include the tograph of an African-American boy sitting on a seawall (a St. Augustine landmark that extends from the old Spanish Fort to the Government barracks), a view of treasury Street, the narrowest street in the city, the St. Augustine lighthouse, and the album's first photograph which shows the gates to the city.