Kicha's photos with the keyword: cabinet card

Portrait of an unknown African American family taken at Morton Studio in Providence, Rhode Island. [ Daniel Cowin Collection ]

Cabinet card of an unknown soldier and his family pose for their formal portrait at Baillie & Robinson Photography Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. His wife appears to be biracial (black and white ancestry) at the time she would have been identified as being mulatto. It would not have been considered an interracial marriage. Missouri Historical Society

An unknown African American young woman poses for her formal portrait at the J.A. Thomason Studio in Louisiana, Missouri. [ Missouri State Museum ]

Cabinet card of a young African American woman with what appears to be letters on her lap. Gates, Branch of Forestville Studio, Chicago, Courtesy of Larry Gottheim

Maude Brooks Cotton (1872-1945), a native of Oberlin, Ohio, received her early school training at Knoxville College. Later she enrolled at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1896. In 1900 she was married to Reverend John Adam Cotton (1865 - 1943), and immediately journeyed in the mission field for the United Presbyterian Church. In 1903, she joined her husband in Henderson, North Carolina, where he was called to pastor and serve as president of the Henderson Normal School. Making him the second African American to do so. She was an active member of the organization and also wrote the words and music for the Federated Song. "We Are Lifting as We Climb." She was a charter member and local and state president of the Parent -Teachers Association. In 1943, she accompanied her husband to Knoxville College, where he was named the first black president and served until his death that same year. She was the mother of Carol C. Bowie, an educator. She is interred on the grounds of Jubilee Hospital. Sources: Vance County, North Carolina, By Andre Vann, (2000); Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Knoxville, Tennessee; Knaffl Brothers, Knoxville, Tennessee;Courtesy of Andre D. Vann

Lovely portrait of a young woman identified as Georgia Morse photographed at A.T. Durant Studio in Akron, Ohio.

An unknown African American woman photographed at Skewes Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio. [ A Saga of the Black Woman; by Rosetta Lucas Quisenberry ]

Cabinet Card portrait of John W. Greene who served in Company A of the 9th Ohio Volunteers. The 9th Ohio Volunteers was the only all black regiment from Ohio to fight in the Spanish American War. Another significant point is that the battalian also served under the command of African American officers. [ Photographer, Harper & Co., of Washington DC ]

Cabinet card of two beautiful young ladies (almost certain they're sisters) photographed by African American photographer, James E. Reed at Headley & Reed Studios in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Sources: African American Vernacular Photography; Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection