1920ca AFRICAN AMERICAN signed photo judge (?) Walinger Studio Chicago

Description

[AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN PHOTOGRAPH, ca. 1920; WALINGER STUDIO PORTRAIT, CHICAGO] CABINET PHOTOGRAPH OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN wearing what looks to be a judge’s robe, hand-signed in pen “Sincerely, Chas. Bond”
, A Portrait by Walinger Studio, 37 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, lightly sepia-toned black-and-white, 9-3/4” x 5-3/4” in cabinet photo folder, underneath the man’s photo is a circular embossed seal “Walinger Chicago”
/// PROVENANCE:
from a large group of late 19th to mid 20th century photographs of African Americans from the Mid West and Boston, some of which were authenticated to be photos of Sydonia Byrd and relatives, friends, and classmates of hers…Sydonia was a one-time romantic interest of the HarlemRenaissance poet Countee Cullen…they met when he was at Harvard and she was at the Boston Conservatory following her study of music at Oberlin…she came from a well-to-do African American family in Indianapolis, her father owned a barbershop
/// CONDITION:
photograph fine in lightly worn cabinet photo folder.