McClure's Paragon Gallery
Portrait of a Reverend Delivering Fruit to Yellow Fever Victims in New Orleans, 1878
Hand-tinted albumen print
6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
Manuscript caption recto and signed and inscribed verso.
Manuscript caption recto and signed and inscribed verso.
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Unusual portrait of Reverend August Gottschall posed with a metal bucket in one hand and a basket of fruit of in the other. On the mount there is a caption...
Unusual portrait of Reverend August Gottschall posed with a metal bucket in one hand and a basket of fruit of in the other. On the mount there is a caption which reads, "Rev. A. Gottschall delivering provisions to the recovering sick, in the great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, in New Orleans, LA." On the verso, it is inscribed by Gottschall, "My happiness consists in making suffering humanity happy. I am trusting in the lord." And on the bottom, a note which reads, "Now indepent. City Missionary Kansas City 1885."