(PHOTOGRAPHY) Papa and a Bunch of Negroes

Sale 2308 - Lot 504

Price Realized: $ 390

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Papa and a Bunch of Negroes. Silver print photograph, 5 x 7 inches on a contemporary cardboard mount, on which the above caption is written in pencil; on the reverse, in pencil is "Indiana Coalminers." Indiana, circa 1890-1900

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An interesting photograph of a group of African American miners with one white man who does not appear to be their superior. Behind the first row of miners there are three men,. One of whom holds a mule. Indiana possesses some of the largest untapped reserves of coal in the world. There has been ongoing coalmining along the Wabash River since its discovery there in 1736.