Alex Carrington, 1910?

Containers:
Box 3, Image RL.11785-P-0305
Physical description:
16 1/2 x 10 3/4 cm; albumen; card mount
Scope and content:

African American man with mustache in dark coat, holding cane, three-quarter standing studio portrait. Handwritten on back: Alex Carrington. Printed on front: Lovell / Amherst, Mass. Card has green tint.

Biographical / historical:
Alexander H. Carrington, "Ethiopian," was born November 1888 in Connecticut, and at the time of World War I draft card, lived in Boston, Massachusetts and was single. [Source: Ancestry.com, viewed August 19, 2021]

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