[Boy with drum] [graphic]. 1852.

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[Boy with drum] [graphic]. 1852.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/159934160

Portrait of an unidentified boy with hand colored cheeks and a hand colored drum standing by a table. Portrait is displayed in a scalloped sheet brass mat and gilt inner frame. Inside the case behind the image is written in pencil "J. P. Ball Artist, 28 4th Street Cincinnati, Ohio Dec. 31st 52."

1 photographic print in wood case : daguerreotype, hand col. ; 9 x 8 cm.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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Ball, James Presley, 1825-1904

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African-American photographer; from 1846 operated studios in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Richmond. From the description of Daguerreotype of the Greenbrier Resort, 1845. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50442458 J.P. Ball began work in photography in 1845 as a Southern itinerant photographer, settling in Cincinnati as a daguerreotypist in 1847, later establishing a photography parlor in N.Y. He was one of few Freemen of color documenting the pre-Civil War era. Bal...