Inscribed Cabinet Card Photograph of Captain M.A. Healy, the First Man of African-American Descent to Captain an American Government Ship

by HEALY, Captain Michael Augustine

$6,000 · Offered by Between the Covers

San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson, 1884. Unbound. Albumen photographic cabinet card. Image size 4" x 5¾" on slightly larger thick card mount. Photographer's printed name, address, and advertising both on the verso, and beneath the image. Bottom corners of the mount a bit rounded, likely to fit in an album..... More

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