Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 431

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) BATTEY, CORNELIUS M. Even Tide. 'When Dusky Twilight Begins to Gather 'Round Me. 8 x 10 inches matte finish silver print photograph by Tuskegee's resident photographer Cornelius M. Battey with his Tuskegee Photograph Division blind stamp in the lower right corner; typewritten caption sheet affixed to the verso: 'Permission is given Hampton Tuskegee Fund for us in their campaign.' Tuskegee, AL, [1916-1920]
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a touching photo of an elderly woman, very possibly an ex-slave, seated smoking her corn-cob pipe. Cornelius Marion Battey (1873-1927) was born in Augusta Georgia, but spent the majority of his life in the North. In 1916, Battey was tapped to head the new Photography department at Tuskegee. He had excellent credentials and in the last decade of the 19th century and into the early years of the twentieth produced a series of portraits titled 'Our Heroes of Destiny' that included W.E.B. Du Bois, John Mercer Langston, Frederick Douglass, Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Booker T Washington. Many of his portraits appeared in the pages of Opportunity and Crisis Magazine.