Lot of 3 albums, including: 1.5 x 13.5 in. album containing 60 portraits of an African American family. Many images captioned on the photograph, dated 1918-1920s in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and 1931 in Denver, Colorado, with some as late as the 1940s. A young soldier in the family is identified as Robert Russa Griffin. 9.375 x 12.5 in. album containing 46 photographs, ca mid-to-late 1950s, of an African American family from Denver. Mostly family snapshots and school portraits. 10 x 13.75 in. album containing roughly 200 photographs of an upper middle class white family, most dated 1910s to early 1920s, but several photographs from the 1890s. Many names and locations are noted on the album pages, including scenes in Cape May and Camden, NJ, Delaware, Swarthmore College, and Paris. One page in the middle contains six photographs of African American women and children, and another two show what appears to be the same woman with the children of the white family. Provenance: Dr. John W. Ravage Collection of African American Photography Condition: Photographs mostly very good. Albums themselves in pretty bad shape, with lose binding and chipped pages, and many photographs unglued.
Lot of 3 albums, including: 1.5 x 13.5 in. album containing 60 portraits of an African American family. Many images captioned on the photograph, dated 1918-1920s in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and 1931 in Denver, Colorado, with some as late as the 1940s. A young soldier in the family is identified as Robert Russa Griffin. 9.375 x 12.5 in. album containing 46 photographs, ca mid-to-late 1950s, of an African American family from Denver. Mostly family snapshots and school portraits. 10 x 13.75 in. album containing roughly 200 photographs of an upper middle class white family, most dated 1910s to early 1920s, but several photographs from the 1890s. Many names and locations are noted on the album pages, including scenes in Cape May and Camden, NJ, Delaware, Swarthmore College, and Paris. One page in the middle contains six photographs of African American women and children, and another two show what appears to be the same woman with the children of the white family. Provenance: Dr. John W. Ravage Collection of African American Photography Condition: Photographs mostly very good. Albums themselves in pretty bad shape, with lose binding and chipped pages, and many photographs unglued.
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