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Lot 90

Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
Lots Open
Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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$500 - 700
Price Realized
$1,020
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[EARLY PHOTO.] 11 occupational stereoviews, many showing Black men and women with ox-drawn carts. 

11 stereoviews on cardstock mounts, ca 1870s-1880s, featuring the following subjects/scenes:

ROBERTSON, W.T., publisher. 4 stereoviews of Black subjects riding or standing near ox-drawn carts, each with manuscript caption on verso. Includes: "A 'Lightard" cart and girl." -- "Country Carts." -- "Uncle Joe's Team." -- "Southern Team." Asheville, NC.

[With:] MORGAN, Rufus, publisher. Stereoview of a young girl standing near an ox-drawn cart, manuscript caption on verso "Light-Wood Cart." Raleigh, NC. -- PALMER, J.A., photographer. "Uncle Isaac Selling Wood." Aiken, SC. With contemporary inscription on verso describing the image, which was taken in Oct. 1876. -- WILSON & HAVENS, photographers. Stereoview of a Black man driving an ox-drawn cart, manuscript caption on verso "1st Amendment." Savannah, GA. -- WEARN & HIX, photographers. View of a Black man leaning against a tree, inscribed on verso, "Plain Street, Columbia, So. Ca., No. 29." Columbia, SC. -- WALKER & MANCEL, photographers. Stereoview of a Black man leading a team of oxen. New Orleans, LA. -- Uncredited stereoview of a female peanut vender, identified in pencil on verso as "Peanut Woman." -- FRENCH, J.A., publisher. View of several men, likely workers, standing in front of a factory. Keene, NH.

Together, 11 stereoviews.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

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