Abolitionist REV TW LEWIS Rare 1860s CDV Photo Freed Slave Missionary Methodist memento mori There is tarnish

There is tarnish

later marrying the railroad tycoon Henry Villard

On the back is the original studio card for Robert Armstrong

Pair of sixth-plate daguerreotypes of a man and his wife taken in the same sitting

A unique and artistic piece

Abolitionist REV TW LEWIS Rare 1860s CDV Photo Freed Slave Missionary Methodist memento mori There is tarnishOriginal 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