Abolitionist REV TW LEWIS Rare 1860s CDV Photo Freed Slave Missionary Methodist anson 925 Pennsylvania Avenue

925 Pennsylvania Avenue

The only examples I could find online were two - a painted portrait and a drawn / sketch portrait - this is the only photograph of him

translated as "The White Woman of the Genesee"

These albums are an unusual size at about 16” x 8”

Abolitionist REV TW LEWIS Rare 1860s CDV Photo Freed Slave Missionary Methodist anson 925 Pennsylvania AvenueOriginal early 1860s CDV of Reverend Timothy Willard Lewis (1825 1871), by Black & Case, Boston. Lewis was a missionary to freed black slaves, and during the Reconstruction Era in South Carolina established the Charleston Advocate, a newspaper intended for an African American audience. Portrait taken by Black shortly before he departed to South Carolina in 1862. 4" x 2. 5". Very good antique condition.. very tiny bit of liftin of the image in the