James Presley Ball African American Photographer 1887 Black JP Photo Cabinet Car

DETAILS: Original cabinet card photograph by African American photographer James Presley Ball. BIOGRAPHY: James Presley Ball Sr.

Born in Virginia he daguerreotype photography in Boston from John B. Bailey, who like Ball, was a freeman of color. Ball opened his first studio in Cincinnati, Ohio 1845 which went on to become was one of the most popular portrait studios in mid-19th century America. 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.