RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA surname The dark gray mounts are

The dark gray mounts are 5" x 5" and the photos themselves 
are approximately 3" in diameter

Most of thecabinet cards are the standard 6

with tarnish spots as shown

the top-right area is dark

Dag comes in half of its original case (6" x 4

RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA surname The dark gray mounts areVery 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"