(MUSIC) Cabinet card of the South African Kaffir Choir

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(MUSIC.) Cabinet card of the South African Kaffir Choir. Albumen photograph, 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, on mount with photographer's backmark and manager James Balmer's inked stamp on verso; minor wear to mount. Boston, circa 1894?

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The South African Kaffir Choir, composed of singers recruited from Africa and performing in traditional dress, began touring America in 1894 and continued intermittently through at least 1916. This photograph was taken in Boston at Elmer Chickering's Royal Photographic and Portrait Studio.