Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 386

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) SCURLOCK, ADDISON N. 1918 Senior Dental Class Howard University. Silver Print, 16-

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Addison N. Scurlock (1883-1964), photographer was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His father George, a politician moved the family to Washington in 1900. There, young Addison apprenticed with white photographer Moses Rice. In 1904, at the age of 21, he opened his own studio, focusing on the African-American community. By the second decade of the century, Addison Scurlock had become one of Washington''s premier photographers.