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      • JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) A panorama titled View of the Burnt District from Chauncy Street, Boston, Nov. 1872.
        May. 16, 2024

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) A panorama titled View of the Burnt District from Chauncy Street, Boston, Nov. 1872.

        Est: $2,000 - $3,000

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) A panorama titled View of the Burnt District from Chauncy Street, Boston, Nov. 1872. The 3-part panorama documents the devastation caused by the Great Fire of Boston on November 9-10, 1872. Different areas of the city are identified on the mount, including the intersection in the foreground (Arch Street and Summer Street), Trinity Church, Bunker Hill, City Hall, Custom House, South Boston, and more. Albumen prints, the overall image measuring 12½x45¾ inches (31.7x116.2 cm.), the mount approximately 18x52 inches (45.7x132 cm.), with Black's printed credit, title, and date, and identified areas noted in ink, on mount recto; framed. 1872

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • [CIVIL WAR]. BLACK, James Wallace (1825-1896) photographer. A group of 2 photographs of identified ships, incl. the USS Santee. Boston, MA, ca 1860s.
        Jun. 15, 2023

        [CIVIL WAR]. BLACK, James Wallace (1825-1896) photographer. A group of 2 photographs of identified ships, incl. the USS Santee. Boston, MA, ca 1860s.

        Est: $400 - $600

        [CIVIL WAR]. BLACK, James Wallace (1825-1896) photographer. A group of 2 photographs of identified ships, incl. the USS Santee. Boston, MA, ca 1860s. 16 x 11 1/4 in. albumen photographs on 23 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. cardstock mounts (toning and some fading to prints, occasional spotting; toning and some staining to mounts, edge and corner wear to mounts incl. chipping and loss). Lower margin of mount features J.W. Black's "163 and 173 Washington Street" [Boston] imprint and elegantly inscribed titles. Photographs include: View of the US Frigate Santee (1820-1912), a wooden-hulled, three-masted sailing frigate of the US Navy that was acquired by the Union Navy in 1861 and outfitted with heavy guns and a crew of 480. She was assigned as a gunship in the Union blockade of the Confederacy and saw a great deal of hand-to-hand fighting at sea, which resulted in the capture of a number of Confederate schooners, including the Garonne. In January 1862, the Santee was assigned to Flag Officer David Farragut's new West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and was responsible for blockading the Texas Coast, mainly off Galveston, through the end of August, when she was decommissioned. She later became a training ship for the US Navy. -- View of the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, including the US Schooner Yacht America in the foreground, and US Practice Ship Marion and receiving ship Ohio in the background. This lot is located in Cincinnati. Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents

        Hindman
      • JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It.
        Apr. 27, 2023

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It.

        Est: $15,000 - $25,000

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It. Oval carbon print, the image measuring 7 1/8x5 1/2 inches (18x14 cm.), the sheet 10 7/8x8 1/2 inches (27.6x21.6 cm.). 1860 Provenance: Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts In order to achieve this bird's-eye view of Boston, Black ascended the skies in navigator Samuel King's hot air balloon, which was tethered 1200 feet above Boston Common. It is considered the first aerial photograph made in America, and was given its romantic title by none other than Oliver Wendell Holmes. In July 1863, Holmes wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: "Boston, as the eagle and wild goose see it, is a very different object from the same place as the solid citizen looks up at its eaves and chimneys. The Old South [Meeting House] and Trinity Church [left center and lower right] are two landmarks not to be mistaken. Washington Street [bottom] slants across the picture as a narrow cleft. Milk Street [left center] winds as if the old cowpath which gave it a name had been followed by the builders of its commercial palaces. Windows, chimneys, and skylights attract the eye in the central parts of the view, exquisitely defined, bewildering in numbers...As a first attempt [at aerial photography] it is on the whole a remarkable success; but its greatest interest is in showing what we may hope to see accomplished in the same direction."

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896)
        Oct. 07, 2010

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896)

        Est: $1,500 - $2,500

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) Street facade, Boston, c.1860 albumen print 7¼ x 7¼in. (18.4 x 18.4cm.) (arched)

        Christie's
      • JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896)
        Oct. 06, 2010

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896)

        Est: $1,500 - $2,500

        JAMES WALLACE BLACK (1825-1896) Street facade, Boston, c.1860 albumen print 7¼ x 7¼in. (18.4 x 18.4cm.) (arched)

        Christie's
      • BLACK, JAMES WALLACE (1825-1896) Kit Carson.
        Mar. 23, 2010

        BLACK, JAMES WALLACE (1825-1896) Kit Carson.

        Est: $30,000 - $45,000

        WITH CARSON'S SIGNATURE AND INSCRIPTION BLACK, JAMES WALLACE (1825-1896) Kit Carson. Albumen print, 11 1/4x8 1/2 inches (28.6x21.6 cm.), on the two-toned original mount, with Carson's signature and inscription "With the Compliments of the original," in ink, on mount recto. 1868

        Swann Auction Galleries
      • AAC Black, James Wallace. U.S. Frigates
        Jul. 09, 2009

        AAC Black, James Wallace. U.S. Frigates

        Est: $1,000 - $1,500

        AAC Black, James Wallace. U.S. Frigates Constitution and Santee. Vintage albumen photographs, approximately 11x15¾". Modern mounting. [Boston]: [c. 1862] Taken by James Wallace Black (1825-1896) circa 1862 in Newport, RI, showing the two frigates moored at the dock. At this time, both the Constitution and Santee had been decommissioned and were used as Naval training ships during the Civil War. Lower margin with caption trimmed (with some loss of text) and remounted, a few small chips at edges, short tear at top edge; very good.

        PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
      • Black transferware teapot, james and thomas edwards, burslem, 1825, Of paneled baluster form with shaped handle, decorated with "Gentle
        Nov. 16, 2007

        Black transferware teapot, james and thomas edwards, burslem, 1825, Of paneled baluster form with shaped handle, decorated with "Gentle

        Est: $150 - $250

        Black transferware teapot james and thomas edwards, burslem, 1825 Of paneled baluster form with shaped handle, decorated with "Gentlemen's Cabin" (Larsen No. 453) from the "Boston Mails" series . H: 9 in. PROVENANCE: Garth's Auctioneers, Deleware, Ohio

        Freeman's
      • FRAMED ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH
        Apr. 02, 2004

        FRAMED ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH

        Est: $250 - $400

        FRAMED ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH Circa 1861- 1865Depicting the U.S. Frigates "Constitution" and "Santee" at mooring in Newport, R.I. Marked "J. Black." James Wallace Black (American, 1825-1896). Image, 11" x 15¾".

        Eldred's
      • James Wallace Black (American, 1825-1896)
        Jul. 30, 2002

        James Wallace Black (American, 1825-1896)

        Est: $2,000 - $3,000

        The Schooner yacht America, c.1880 albumen print 111/4 x 16 in. (28.5 x 40.6 cm.) NOTES James Wallace Black (1825-1896) operated out of his second floor studio also on Bostons busy Washington Street. This important photo depicts America without sails. Her racking masts suggest that of a "Baltimore clipper." The design promised speed and grace, a promise fulfilled in halcyon days with her historic 1851 win at Cowes. By 1863 she had already spent several years as a pleasure yacht, but was soon to be spirited away to Georgia by a Southern sympathizer and sold to the Confederacy. Falsely carrying the flags of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club she smuggled war supplies. In the face of capture she was scuttled at Jacksonville, Florida, re-floated by Union forces and used in blockade duty chasing Confederates. Thereafter she was used by the US Navy as a training vessel. In 1873 she was sold to General Ben Butler, of Boston. He and his descendants sailed her again as a yacht. Beginning in 1921 she was restored and berthed at Annapolis as a museum. Her end came, sadly, in 1942 when snow crushed the shed under which she was housed.

        Christie's
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