DETAILS: Carte de Visite photograph of a black teen along with a white child. Circa 1860, Noverre & Smith, Toronto, Upper Canada, British North America. We believe the young black man in this photo is an African American who had escaped to Upper Canada via the Underground Railway. Measures 2.5 x 3.25 inches.
Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper items with a large selection of historical and 19th Century tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cabinet cards, carte des visites and other types of early photography.