Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 322

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) African American camp cook, tending a pot, probably that day's lunch. Small unmounted carte-de-visite photograph, 2-3/8 x 2-7/8 inches; in an old gilt frame. [City Point, VA,] circa 1863-1865

Additional Details

A well-known image, quite likely part of the Gardner/Brady series of photographs chronicling the War.