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Carte-de-visite photographs of Christine McCoy and Millie McCoy
Title
[Carte-de-visite photographs of Christine McCoy and Millie McCoy].
Production
[New York, New York] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; [Saint Louis, Missouri], [circa 1860s-1880s]
Physical Description
3 photographs : albumen prints ; prints 93 x 59 mm and smaller, mounts 106 x 63 mm and smaller
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation supplied by cataloger and printed text on verso of one photograph.
Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
One photograph has printed text on verso: "W. L. Germon's Temple of Art, 914 Arch Street, Philadelphia".
Text in English.
Provenance
Purchased from William Reese Co. (Swann Galleries sale 2441, 2017 March 30, lot 439) on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2017.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Christine McCoy (1851-1912) and Millie McCoy (1851-1912) were African American conjoined twins, entertainers, and singers.
Ollivier Photo was a photography studio operated by Horace Ollivier in Brooklyn, New York.
W. L. (Washington Lafayette) Germon was a photographer active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1846-1877.
Hughes & Co. was a photography studio active in Saint Louis, Missouri, circa 1860s.
Summary
Three carte-de-visite photographs of Christine McCoy and Millie McCoy, taken by various photographers, circa 1860s-1880s. Includes a carte-de-visite photograph taken by W. L. Germon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a carte-de-visite photograph attributed to Ollivier Photo, New York, New York; and a carte-de-visite photograph attributed to Hughes & Co., Saint Louis, Missouri.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 19, 2021
References
Carte-de-visite Photographs of Christine McCoy and Millie McCoy. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Carte-de-visite Photographs of Christine McCoy and Millie McCoy. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Albumen prints.
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
Photographs.
Studio portraits.
Occupation
Entertainers United States 19th century.
Singers United States 19th century.
Also listed under
George Hughes & Co., photographer.
Ollivier Photo, photographer.
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