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[CIVIL WAR]. [BLACK AMERICANA]. Group of Six African American Tintype Portraits. [V.p., ca. 1860s]. Group of five tintype photographs and one Carte de Visite of African Americans during the civil war era. Including: two portraits of adolescent girls. Mount Holly: K.K. Photographer (Formerly Swaim’s Gallery). – One portrait of an infant. Philadelphia: Chesterton’s Chromo Ferrotypes. – A CDV portrait of a woman, annotated verso. Knoxville, Tenn. – One tintype of a woman posed next to a chair in front of a fireplace. – One tintype of a well-dressed man. Each approx. 4 x 2 ½”. Conditions vary, some foxing to paper, tarnishing and minor corrosion. Very good/ good.