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PROPERTY FROM THE JACKIE NAPOLEAN WILSON COLLECTION
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"Venerable elder"
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UNKNOWN MAKER
"Venerable elder"
Ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored. Circa 1855. Partial leather case.
UNKNOWN MAKER
"Venerable elder"
Ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored. Circa 1855. Partial leather case.
Literature
Wilson,
Hidden Witness:African-American Images from the Dawn of Photography to the Civil War
, pp. 60-61.
Exhibited
Hidden Witness:African-Americans in Early Photography
, The J. Paul Getty Musuem, Malibu, California, 29 February - 18 June, 1995.
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