Portrait of a mulatto woman [picture] / J.P. Ball. [ca. 1850]

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Portrait of a mulatto woman [picture] / J.P. Ball. [ca. 1850]

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1 photograph : daguerreotype, 6-plate ; visible oval image 7 x 6 cm. in case 9 x 8 cm.

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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...