Beschreibung:

Lot of 3 cabinet cards of African American men, all by the Pach Brothers in New York, from a Yale-related album dated 1881. The Pach Brothers took a large series of images at Yale, many now housed at their Archives (RU 644). Cabinet card half-length studio portrait of a man identified as Washington Allston in a pencil inscription on recto. Imprint on recto. Allston wears a knit cap and carries a satchel with a ring of several keys visible. Cabinet card vignetted bust-length studio portrait of a bearded man. Imprint on recto. Cabinet card full-length studio portrait of a man with a goatee sitting on a faux stone wall holding a cane with a straw boater hat sitting next to him. 841 Broadway imprint on verso.