[AFRICAN AMERICANA] Fine Oklahoma View of Young Black Men

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Day 2: Early & Historic Americana

By Fleischer's Auctions

Oct 10, 2025

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Day one of Fleischer's 2025 Fall Premier auction includes early American artifacts, documents, signatures, ephemera, and weaponry. Rare material relating to African American history is featured, as well as fine examples of antique photography. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com

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• Lot Description

  Full-length albumen cabinet card studio portrait of two Black men. El Reno, Oklahoma Territory: Stevenson, n.d. Photographer's imprint to mount recto. Ink inscription to verso reads: "Johnnie Johnson Sr." 

   

  Two handsome young Black men pose in a photographer's studio. Each wears an overcoat, a hat, and a silk tie. A Jonnie Johnson is listed as a porter in the 1930 El Reno, Oklahoma, city directory, possibly one of the subjects of this attractive portrait. 

   

  Stevenson was a photographer in El Reno who produced stereoviews of Native Americans, including the Cheyenne. (Mautz, p. 345). 

   

  Western views of Black subjects are exceedingly scarce. 

   

  [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards, Stereographs]  [African Americana, African American History, Black History]

   

   

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