[AFRICAN AMERICANA - EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. White and Black Twins. CDV of Hellen Ann Windman Walker and Henry Sedam Walker. Pittsburgh, PA: L.A. Phillips, 1868.

CDV on cardstock mount (toning, some soiling to print and mount, edge wear to mount). Additional information printed in lower margin of mount: "Offspring of colored parents. 12 years of age 2d day of May, 1868, as exhibited at Burnell’s Museum, Fifth Street, opposite Old Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pa." With credit to "L.A. Phillips, Photographer" printed in lower margin. A studio portrait of identified twins, Helen Ann Windman Walker and Henry Sedam Walker.

Helen Ann Windman Walker (1856-1922) was an albino, born to African American parents, and with an African American twin brother, Henry Sedam Walker, with whom she was commonly pictured. She was exhibited widely during the 1860s and was often billed as "The Albino" or "White Negro Girl."
This lot is located in Cincinnati.