RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA radio including a spider in its

including a spider in its web

Maybe he knew the Borden family

Based on research of the death of infants named Stone in Virginia at the time

I believe I was able to find info on him online - he was born in 1892

Original late-1800s photo of a well-dressed African American couple holding closed umbrellas

RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA radio including a spider in itsVery rare original cabinet card of Reverend C. B. Allen, pastor of the 1st Baptist Church of Helena, Montana, photographed by the pioneering black photographer James Presley Ball & Son's Helena, Montana studio. Reverend Allen was the only black clergyman in Helena during the 1880s and 1890s. On the back is some old writing, looks like "#3216 Germantown Ave, below Rising Sun Lane, Philadelphia, Pa." and "To L?? from Pa". Cabinet card is 6. 5" x 4. 25"