Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Civil War era CDV of a Slave mammy holding a child on her lap presumably her charge from the owners. The image comes from the estate of noted Civil War photographer C C Giers of Nashville. Sharp image though the top is under-trimmed as seen. Carl Caspar Giers (1828-1877) was a German-born American photographer active primarily in Nashville, Tennessee, in the mid-19th century. In January 1855, he opened a daguerreotype studio at the corner of Deaderick and College streets, Nashville. During the Civil War, Giers photographed both Confederate and Union soldiers. After the Union Army occupied Nashville in early 1862, Giers was given a pass to move about freely in the city, and to travel outside the city. Prominent individuals photographed by Giers included presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, former First Lady Sarah Childress Polk, governors Isham G. Harris, William G. Brownlow, and John C. Brown. Giers photographed both Confederate and Union generals during the Civil War, including Benjamin F. Cheatham, Felix K. Zollicoffer, John Hunt Morgan, Joseph F. Knipe, George Henry Thomas, and Thomas H. Ruger. Other prominent individuals photographed by Giers included outlaw Jesse James, whiskey dealer George A. Dickel, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and several former slaves of Andrew Jackson.
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