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Black Americana Oyster Dredging In The Chesapeake Bay
Black Americana Engraving Mine Oyster Dredging Boats In The Chesapeake (Bay)
Black Americana hung in our home 20 years, professionally framed & matted. Accompanying card: : Authentic Antique Print Professionally Hand Colored American History Depicted In Engravings From Illustrated Antique Weeklies. From mid 1800's to turn of the century before many could read, extremely popular illustrated newspapers such as Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie"s Illustrated pictured the news and events of the times.
Special artist-correspondents were present at the event to accurately sketch the scene as it was making hisory. These sketches were rushed to the East Coast publishers whereby skilled artisans engraved them on wood blocks.
Within a week after the event the printed illustrated newspapers were in the publics hands. Today their value to collectors is twofold, as historically accurate records, and as exquisitely engeraved works of art. At the side it says: Supplement, March 16, 1872 Harpers Weekly. Below: Mine Oyster Dredging Boats In The Chesapeake (See page 220) To the far right is regarding a story. There's an ink smudge upper right corner. Far left under the way is the artists name W.L. Sheppard Del. Beautifully done there are 12 men shown in 4 boats. Crossover collectible for the collectors of Black Memorabilia and those collecting oyster tins & advertising as well as those interested in the Chesapeake Bay. 15 1/2" wide 10 1/2" across, the frame is 20 1/2" x 15 1/4".cross, the frame is 20 1/2" x 15 1/4".About 5 lbs unpackaged. Black Americana Black memorabilia art lithograph hand colored engraving
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Black American Signed 1920s Pencil Sketch
Black Americana framed pencil sketch of a Black American gentleman in some type of uniform. My guess is this was done in the 1920s - to - 1940s by "E. Jacobs" titled "Mino'o"The frame size is 26" tall 20 1/4" wide. The picture area is 17" tall 13" wide. It's very unusual in that the man has a top hat sitting beside him, his coat has tails. Was he a coachman? There is a wide strap across his left shoulder. He is holding a book. He appears to be in the middle years of his life. He has some baldness & curls above his ears. He has a pleasant smile. There's about an 1 1/2" damaged paper area at the top that is from aging paper, another area on the front of the bench and 2 or 3 pinpoint areas on floor. There's a dark spot near his left shoulder, don't have a clue what caused that. I think the picture has been in this frame since the day it was completed. The artist signed his name at the far left corner of the bench and the title is in the lowest left corner. We prefer to ship this professionally packaged you will pay exact shipping costs. Black Americana art Black Memorabilia Folk Art American artists Black Americana
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