Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 349

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) BATTEY, CORNELIUS M. Large silver print portrait of W.E. B. Du Bois. 20x15-3/4 inches-image size 13x9-3/4 inches; printed on heavy stock with a plate indentation, as though for an engraving. Battey's stamp and copyright notice are in the negative in the lower left corner. [Tuskegee, 1918]
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This is one of the best-known images of Du Bois, whom Battey met while living in New York City.