?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Seaman, William Norris. Cart-de-visite of a young black seaman, wearing his 'pea-coat, uniform and flat Navy cap. (WGC) Brooklyn: Alfred Jacobs, circa 1863-1965
a rare image of an african american seaman. There were only 18,000 black men and eleven women in the naval service, versus the nearly 179,000 in the regular army. Their service has been virtually unacknowledged because of the lack of accurate figures until quite recently.
