(PHOTOGRAPHY--EARLY AND CASED IMAGES.) Outdoor photograph of a seated, well-dressed, black man, with his white wife and their interracial child. Half-plate tintype, in a contemporary case. Np, circa 1880's-1900
an uncommon image of a mixed couple. While certainly not unheard of, interracial marriages were no doubt unusual. "Miscegenation," or mixing of the races was considered socially unacceptable, if not unthinkable in much of the North as well as the South, until relatively more recent times.
