Portrait of a Boy

c. 1860

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Article:  Rare Early Photographs of African American Life

A large collection of personal photographs offers a glimpse of Black entrepreneurship and self-expression in the 19th and 20th centuries.


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Provenance

(sale, antique show, Baltimore, MD); Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

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Inscriptions

on verso of frame, by Ross Kelbaugh, upper center in black ink on applied sticker: AF19; upper right: 815ECH


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