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Sale 2697 - Lot 316

Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) African-American family photo album from Springfield, Ohio. 52 cabinet card photographs inserted into 15 album leaves. Quarto album, 8 x 11 inches, steel-tipped boards with original calf covering torn off; generally minor wear and foxing to photographs, wear and splitting to some of the faux-wood album leaves. Springfield, OH and elsewhere, circa 1880s and 1890s
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An elegant family portrait album, with one outdoor portrait of seven formally attired family members having a picnic. Exactly half of these photographs are on mounts by various photographers from Springfield, OH; 7 are from other towns in Ohio such as Newark, Delaware, Urbana, and Dayton; and 3 are from Lexington, KY. 16 are from unidentified photographers. We have spotted captions on only two: a group portrait of 7 young people in Newark, OH is inscribed "Maggie Wesley"; and a portrait of an older man is inscribed on verso "Mrs. Laura Wells, rear of 57 Madison Ave." The full story of how these aunts, cousins and children are connected is yet to be told.

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