?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--PHOTOGRAPHY.) "THOMAS SHAW PHOTOGRAPHIST". Aunt Martha and Family, Slaves from Nashville, Tenn. (inked caption) Cart-de-visite Chargrin Falls, Ohio, circa 1864
a highly unusual image, with a contemporary note on the reverse, presumably by the so-called "photographist." "Lights and Shadows of Southern Life, originally photographed by J.M. Schleier, Nashville Tenn., and copied for the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair (Cleveland, 1864)." The "Light and Shadow" presumably a reference to the light and dark skinned children at Aunt Martha's side. This photo was sold at the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair as a fund raiser for wounded Union soldiers. In all, the Fair raised $78,000.
