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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) HAVENS, PIERRE. The Blackville Serenade. Large, 11 x 14 inch sepia toned albumen photograph, on the photographer's original mount * with the popular tinted color post card that was made from the photo. Together, two pieces. Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1891
A wonderful image that isstereotypical however sympathetic and important in a musical sense. Here we have an image of an actual 'cigar box' guitar. 'Cigar-box' guitars were functional, home-made instruments, quite popular within the black community. This is one of the photographer's better-known pieces, reproduced in a number of forms, the post-card being one of the more popular.
