Second to None: Recent Book Charts Pictorial History of Oblate Sisters, The Nation’s First Order of Black Nuns
As the photo collection approaches the late 1800s and the early 20th century, many photos appear from Baltimore portrait studios such as Reissert’s, J. Holyland, and Strauss’. Many of these portraits are first communion photos of young African-American and African-Latino girls. Two tintypes from the J. Holyland studio in the 1860s and ’70s show young women, clearly of mixed race, posing in conservative, almost gothic-looking black gowns. One wears a medal around her neck from the St. Frances Academy, and both images have been colorized after printing with red rouge on the girls’ cheeks, accentuating and whitewashing their features.Second to None: Recent Book Charts Pictorial History of Oblate Sisters, The Nation’s First Order of Black Nuns
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