RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA radio Maine photographer Samuel L

Maine photographer Samuel L

Original late-1800s photo of a well-dressed African American couple holding closed umbrellas

including a spider in its web

Original 1890s/early-1900s stereoview photograph of nude women

both holding photos of other children

RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA radio Maine photographer Samuel LVery rare original cabinet card of Reverend C. B. Allen, pastor of the 1st Baptist Church of Helena, Montana, photographed by the pioneering black photographer James Presley Ball & Son's Helena, Montana studio. Reverend Allen was the only black clergyman in Helena during the 1880s and 1890s. On the back is some old writing, looks like "#3216 Germantown Ave, below Rising Sun Lane, Philadelphia, Pa." and "To L?? from Pa". Cabinet card is 6. 5" x 4. 25"