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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. A cabinet card and autograph letter signed by an identified Chinese miner working in Deadwood, South Dakota.
Signed ("Wong Hees James"). Galena, D.T., 2[?] May 1882. One page, 5 x 8 1/2 in., mounted to board, fully separated along horizontal line, losses to upper edge, soiling, residue. Addressed to "Miss Lizzie A Fales."
In part: "Befor [sic] I going up your places To School I have a time Me Ermember [sic] you Said I go leave places write Letter to you. I though I would i write a few Lines to Let you know wat what i was Dowing [sic]. I am working for Stearns & Co. Coal Camp i get forty Dallar [sic] pr month...me am very Delighteth [sic]."
Cabinet photograph on cardstock mount (trimming to all edges, toning, spotting, soiling, heavy wear and loss to verso). Deadwood, [Dakota Territory]: Pollock & Boyden, ca 1882. Photographers' pictorial imprint to verso, though much of it is lost to surface damage. Print with period ink inscription: "This boy I taught English in Deadwood SD. 1881 / [?] was a neighbor of Wing Tsue." Mount recto with period ink identification: "Wong Jim He."
The subject poses standing next to a studio pillar, wearing a hat and a wide draped shirt with Mandarin collar. He appears to have an unknown object crumpled in one hand.
Provenance: The estate of Miss Lizzie Fales of Providence, RI, who taught school in South Dakota in the 1880s (consignor note).
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Signed ("Wong Hees James"). Galena, D.T., 2[?] May 1882. One page, 5 x 8 1/2 in., mounted to board, fully separated along horizontal line, losses to upper edge, soiling, residue. Addressed to "Miss Lizzie A Fales."
In part: "Befor [sic] I going up your places To School I have a time Me Ermember [sic] you Said I go leave places write Letter to you. I though I would i write a few Lines to Let you know wat what i was Dowing [sic]. I am working for Stearns & Co. Coal Camp i get forty Dallar [sic] pr month...me am very Delighteth [sic]."
Cabinet photograph on cardstock mount (trimming to all edges, toning, spotting, soiling, heavy wear and loss to verso). Deadwood, [Dakota Territory]: Pollock & Boyden, ca 1882. Photographers' pictorial imprint to verso, though much of it is lost to surface damage. Print with period ink inscription: "This boy I taught English in Deadwood SD. 1881 / [?] was a neighbor of Wing Tsue." Mount recto with period ink identification: "Wong Jim He."
The subject poses standing next to a studio pillar, wearing a hat and a wide draped shirt with Mandarin collar. He appears to have an unknown object crumpled in one hand.
Provenance: The estate of Miss Lizzie Fales of Providence, RI, who taught school in South Dakota in the 1880s (consignor note).
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. A cabinet card and autograph letter signed by an identified Chinese miner
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