[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 3 cabinet photographs of African American women and white infants, incl. 2 views taken during the same sitting.
Sale 994 - African Americana
Feb 23, 2022
11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$300 -
$500
Sold for $469
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 3 cabinet photographs of African American women and white infants, incl. 2 views taken during the same sitting.
2 vignetted studio portrait cabinet cards of the same woman and child. New York and Newport, RI: Julius Ludovici, n.d. 4 x 6 in. photographs on cardstock mounts (toned, occasional spotting). Photographer's imprints to mount rectos and versos.
[With:] Studio portrait of a Black woman holding a white child identified as Starke Dupuy Ferguson, Jr. Roanoke, VA: Fred Brooks, ca 1891. Photographer's pictorial imprint to mount verso. Contemporary ink inscription identifies the baby: "Starke Dupuy Ferguson Jr. Age 6. mos."
Starke Dupuy Ferguson, Jr. was born in 1891 to Cora Funkhouser (b. 1868) and Starke Dupuy Furguson (1863-1962), a banker in Richmond and Roanoke, VA.
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