(PHOTOGRAPHY EARLY AND CASED IMAGES) Two late nineteenth ce

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(PHOTOGRAPHY--EARLY AND CASED IMAGES.) Two late nineteenth century full-plate tintypes that have been enhanced by hand-painting. A seated dark-skinned woman, with sharp, almost 'aquiline' features and a full-plate tintype of a light-skinned child, with her hair in large curls, bleached at the tips. The latter is housed in an elaborate Victorian hand-made and hand-painted mat. Np, circa 1970's -1880's.

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Two rather unusual photographs that demonstrate the almost endless variation of color as a result of the mixtures of race in America. The first photograph is a woman whose dark coloring and sharp features might indicate both African as well as Native American heritage. The second, a young girl with partially blond-tipped finger curls, seems to be of mixed white and black heritage.