Lot of 11 CDVs of African American men and women by photographers active in San Francisco, California, ca 1864-1895. Collection features a portrait of a nanny with three well-dressed white children, including a baby held on the nanny's lap, credited on verso to William Shaw Among other notable images are studio portraits of a mustachioed man standing with a top hat in his hand by the Cosmopolitan Art & Photographic Company; a woman with prominent jewelry and a striped tie at her neck, credited on verso to Bayley J. Winter; and young lady in a plaid dress standing beside a fringed chair, with backmark of Jacob Shew, the "Pioneer Photographer." Other identified photographers and studios include Chalmers & Wolfe, C.L. Cramer, Foss & Halsey, G.D. Morse, New York Gallery, Silva's Photographic Rooms, and George R. White. Between 1860 and 1880, San Francisco's population grew from 57,000 to 234,000 residents. During this same time period, the African American population in the city barely increased, growing from 1,200 to just 1,600. The relatively small number of African Americans makes it all the more remarkable that there are twelve cartes de visite of African American San Franciscans from that period in this collection, eleven of which are offered here. Condition: Condition varies and includes toning, spotting, and surface soil. Some with more apparent areas of wear/creasing, such as those by Morse, Cramer, and Silva.
Lot of 11 CDVs of African American men and women by photographers active in San Francisco, California, ca 1864-1895. Collection features a portrait of a nanny with three well-dressed white children, including a baby held on the nanny's lap, credited on verso to William Shaw Among other notable images are studio portraits of a mustachioed man standing with a top hat in his hand by the Cosmopolitan Art & Photographic Company; a woman with prominent jewelry and a striped tie at her neck, credited on verso to Bayley J. Winter; and young lady in a plaid dress standing beside a fringed chair, with backmark of Jacob Shew, the "Pioneer Photographer." Other identified photographers and studios include Chalmers & Wolfe, C.L. Cramer, Foss & Halsey, G.D. Morse, New York Gallery, Silva's Photographic Rooms, and George R. White. Between 1860 and 1880, San Francisco's population grew from 57,000 to 234,000 residents. During this same time period, the African American population in the city barely increased, growing from 1,200 to just 1,600. The relatively small number of African Americans makes it all the more remarkable that there are twelve cartes de visite of African American San Franciscans from that period in this collection, eleven of which are offered here. Condition: Condition varies and includes toning, spotting, and surface soil. Some with more apparent areas of wear/creasing, such as those by Morse, Cramer, and Silva.
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