(PHOTOGRAPHY) Cabinet card showing a black nurse with a whit

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Cabinet card showing a black nurse with a white baby in her arms. Tiny pinhole at the top edge, not affecting the image in any way. Vienna: Hanisch, circa 1880's

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Apparently this Viennese family employed a black nurse for their child. She might have been from East Africa, where Germany had a sizable colony.