CDV portrait of Frederick Douglass. Samuel M. Fassett: Washington DC, n.d., ca 1878. Photographer's 925 Penna Ave. imprint on verso. Douglass is pictured with heavily graying/white hair, wearing a dark jacket and waistcoat and what appears to be a watch chain. Pencil identification on recto: "Fred Douglas [sic]." Catalogued in Picturing Frederick Douglas as Cat. #95. The only other known example of this carte is catalogued by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. A previously unknown carte appearing to be from the same sitting was recently offered in Swann Auction Galleries's March 28, 2019 Printed & Manuscript African Americana Auction as Lot 236. Condition: CDV with light surface soil and light wear to mount edges. Verso with an area of discoloration due to likely ink smearing, light spotting, and collection/catalogue codes along upper edge.
CDV portrait of Frederick Douglass. Samuel M. Fassett: Washington DC, n.d., ca 1878. Photographer's 925 Penna Ave. imprint on verso. Douglass is pictured with heavily graying/white hair, wearing a dark jacket and waistcoat and what appears to be a watch chain. Pencil identification on recto: "Fred Douglas [sic]." Catalogued in Picturing Frederick Douglas as Cat. #95. The only other known example of this carte is catalogued by the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. A previously unknown carte appearing to be from the same sitting was recently offered in Swann Auction Galleries's March 28, 2019 Printed & Manuscript African Americana Auction as Lot 236. Condition: CDV with light surface soil and light wear to mount edges. Verso with an area of discoloration due to likely ink smearing, light spotting, and collection/catalogue codes along upper edge.
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