Two early African Americans photographed portraits. One on porcelain, the other framed. 24 1/2 x 18 1/2" (largest).

These portraits were found in a townhouse in Rutland Square, Roxbury, MA. Peter Gillis (a Boston teacher, innkeeper, activist, archivist, poet, and collector) who purchased the house in the 1960s, found them on the wall and kept them displayed in the house for over fifty years. They are believed to be some of the earliest occupants or there relations of the late 19th-century brownstone.

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