May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 355

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Flora Stewart, Londonderry, N.H. Aged 117 Years, taken Nov. 5. 1867. Albumen carte-de-visite photograph, 3 1/4 x 2 1/4, on original printed mount with caption on mount recto and photographer's backmark on verso; corners and top edge trimmed, minor foxing. New Hampshire: A.W. Kimball, 1867
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Flora Stewart found her ten minutes of fame when the Manchester Mirror wrote a feature story in May 1867 on her great age, explaining that she had been enslaved in her youth, and was still able to read without spectacles. This image was taken by a local photographer that November; Stewart died the following year.