Pleasing carte-de-visite (CDV) photograph of a finely-dressed African American man identified by a period inscription as “Jack”. Jack holds his hat in one hand and rests a second on the finial of a large prop railing. Jack’s story is currently unknown, but given his age he may well have been a slave or servant. The image is in very good condition, with excellent totality. We note some light soiling and a small water mark at the top left corner. There is no backmark.






[Slavery, Agriculture, Books, Ephemera, Sugar] [African Americana, African-American History, Slave, Slavery, Abolition, Liberia] [Prints, Engravings, Lithographs, Ephemera]. [Slave, Abolition, African Americana, Civil War, Prints] [African American History, Black Americana] [Abraham Lincoln, Union, Confederate, Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist, 13th Amendment, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Barack, Obama] [Daguerreotype, Ambrotype, Tintype, CDV, Albumen, carte-de-visite, Salt print, Cabinet Card]