(PHOTOGRAPHY) Unusually large silver print studio portrait o

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Unusually large silver print studio portrait of a well-dressed black man. 20x16 inches mounted to cardboard; five professional repairs, four in the background and one (the smallest) to the left side of the image. Framer's instructions on reverse with name " Harrison Oliphant." Np, circa 1875-1900

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An unusually large standing portrait of a well-dressed African-American man. White cloths, folded over bales of hay to simulate stones in a wall, and grass beneath the subject's feet, hint that the photograph was taken by a traveling photographer.