In New Orleans, an intact Antebellum decor tells the tales of many lives, free and enslaved
Struggles many and great: James P. Ball, Robert Duncanson, and other artists of color in antebellum Cincinnati
from The Magazine ANTIQUES, November/December 2011 In 1854 Gleason’s Pictorial, the popular, nationally circulated magazine out of Boston, published an article promoting the lavish “Daguerrian Gallery” established in Cincinnati by James P. Ball (Fig. 6), lauding his images as “unsurpassed by any in the Union.”1 In fact, Ball’s Gallery (see Figs. 2, 4) was not so unusual. Mathew Brady’s popular …
History in towns: Madison, Georgia
On the homes and history of Madison, Georgia