Carte-de-visite photograph of Charles Sumner, abolitionist and Massachusetts senator by Silsbee, Case & Co

Boston: Silsbee, Case & Co. 299½ Washington Street. [19th century]. With a contemporary label of Bostob's J.E. Tilton, "manufacturers of photograph albums [and] photographs of all distinguished persons." Lightly-foxed mount; near fine.

A fine carte-de-visite photograph presenting a standing view of Charles Sumner (1811-1874) of Massachusetts, renowned for his advocacy for civil rights for Black Americans during the nineteenth century.