Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AFRICA.) Loomis, G.H.; photographer. Carte-de-visite of an agent in Liberia for the American Colonization Society. Albumen photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, on original mount with photographer's stamp on verso, captioned in pencil on recto and verso, reading "C.L. de Randamie, Grand Bassa, Liberia" on verso; minor foxing. Boston, 1863
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Constantyne L. de Randamie was a native of Surinam who spent ten years in Liberia, mostly in Grand Bassa County as an agent for the American Colonization Society. By 1873 he was a real estate agent in St. Louis, MO, when Frederick Douglass recommended him unsuccessfully for a consul posting in Liberia.