Clara E. Sipprell (1885-1975) was a Canadian born photographer who lived most of her life in the United States. Her photograph “New York City, Old and New” was the first artwork by a female artist acquired for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Sipprell’s portraits of Albert Einstein, Grandma Moses, Pearl S Buck, and others, are well-known and frequently published.

Sipprell’s photograph offered here shows Liverpool Hazzard (1851-1938) a formerly enslaved man born on the rice plantation of Pierce Butler of Darien, McIntosh County, Georgia. The photograph notes Liverpool as being 108 years old, but this was an embellishment added by promoters, as he had become a tourist attraction in the 1930s.

Black and white contact print 9.5” by 7.5” in size, signed by Sipprell in pencil on the mount. Fine condition with a few minor waves in the print. Mounted to heavy paper that measures 12.5 x 10.
 


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