Beschreibung:

Lot of 6 cabinet cards of African American subjects in Kansas. Cabinet card portrait of three children. Palmer: Dunlap, Kansas, n.d., ca 1900. Imprint on recto. A girl and two boys are smartly dressed and pictured in an outdoor setting. The two boys are identified with handwritten captions, “Eugene” and “Gero.” The children were residents of Dunlap, Kansas, a notable black town that was at its peak when this image was taken. Dunlap was not initially a black town when it was founded in 1869 by Joseph Dunlap but was transformed when Benjamin “Pap” Singleton brought hundreds of freedmen from the South to homestead in the spring of 1878. The town prospered until the Great Depression when most residents left to look for better opportunities. Cabinet card full-length portrait of a young girl. Mrs. M.A. Childress: Howard, Kansas, n.d., ca 1885. Imprint on verso. A young girl stands wearing a plaid dress with a ruched bodice and lace collar. A very early example of work by a female photographer working in the frontier. Cabinet card full-length portrait of a gentleman. McInturff: Hutchinson, Kansas, n.d., ca 1890. Imprints on recto. Inscription on verso: “Sam Haneness / Half Brother / Mr. Henry Johnson / My Brother / Died July 1926.” Cabinet card full-length portrait of a woman. J.S. Saurman: Leavenworth, Kansas, n.d., ca 1890. Imprint on recto. The subject stands before a painted drop cloth and rests her hand on a faux rock. Cabinet card portrait of a musician with guitar. G.W. Cross: Atchison, Kansas, n.d., ca 1895. Imprint on recto. A guitarist sits with his instrument wearing a dark suit with a plaid waistcoat and a striped bowtie. A table to his right is draped with a cloth with four photos and his straw boater hat. Cabinet card portrait of Mary Brent. J.B. Shane: Lawrence, Kansas, n.d., ca 1895. Imprint on recto. Inscription on verso identifies the subject: “Mary Brent / She + her husband Alec / lived + worked for / the Fredericks at the / Frederick farm.” Condition: Some soiling and scuffs.