Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(EDUCATION.)--TRINITY COLLEGE. WILLIAMS, JAMES "PROFESSOR JIM." "Prof. Jim," Janitor of Trinity College. Lithograph, 11-1/2x8 inches (image size); paper deeply toned, with a couple of stains, one large, across the bottom of the image. Restorable. sold as is [Hartford: Kellog & Co, circa 1878]
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James Williams (1788-1878), the son of a freedman from Nyack, New York and a slave mother from Yonkers, New York, was the janitor of Trinity College for fifty years. He had become a regular fixture at Trinity practically since it was built.