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Lot 115
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$2,500 -
3,500
Price Realized
$8,820
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Lot Description
DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818-1895). FASSETT, S.M., photographer. CDV of Frederick Douglass. Chicago, IL, [late February 1864].
2 1/4 x 3 5/8 in. CDV on cardstock mount (minor scuffing, light toning). Photographer's Chicago imprint to mount verso. Contemporary ink inscription identifies Douglass on mount recto.
Douglass is pictured wearing a dark, high-necked waistcoat and jacket looking at the camera with a piercing gaze, his hair beginning to grey. Dated to Douglass' trip to Chicago to deliver two lectures at Bryan Hall on February 25 and 28, 1864. Stauffer, Trodd, and Bernier, Picturing Frederick Douglass, cat. #31.