Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 450

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MILITARY--WORLD WAR I--WOMEN.) HUNTON, ADDIE W. Real Photo Post Card picturing Addie Waites Hunton in the center of the back row. Silver print, 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, with a note on the reverse. Chamberry, France, 1918

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a rare image of addie hunton, (1866-1943). Hunton, nurse, suffragist, and civil rights advocate was one of only 18 black nurses assigned to the army's colored troops in 1918. The reverse bears a note 'From Sgt Thomas who was on leave at colored Y.M.C.A at Chamberry, France.' Photographs of Hunton are uncommon.