[African Americana]: [Women]: [Gertrude Easton]:

[Cabinet Card Photograph of Gertrude Easton, Pictured in Her Maid's Uniform, Together with a Later Vernacular Image of Her As an Older Woman].

[Philadelphia]: C.M. Gilbert, [1902]. Albumen photograph, 5.5 x 4 inches, on a cardboard studio mount. Minor surface rubbing, dust-soiling, and edge wear. Very good. Item #5398

A wonderful original photograph of Gertrude Easton dated in March 1902, and produced by the C.M. Gilbert Studio in Philadelphia. In the present photograph, Gertrude Easton (1878-1950) is dressed in a domestic servant's uniform. A later vernacular photograph of Easton is also present here, and sheds clear light on Easton's work via the manuscript notation on its verso: "Gertrude Easton originally from New Haven, Conn, went to work for Rebecca & Grellet Collins in Wynwood Pa. at 16 yrs old. Spent later life at Dott & Mort Gibbons Neff." The older photograph here has a small printed sticker on the back belonging to Grellet Newell Collins with his address in Philadelphia. Collins was half-owner of Dill & Collins Paper Company in Philadelphia. An interesting pair of photographs capturing a young African-American domestic worker in her young years and then her later life.

Price: $250