RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA surname and it's something I don't

and it's something I don't think I've ever seen before

Good condition

but this was part of a group of daguerreotypes that included a Southworth and Hawes dag of Alvin Adams (see my other listing)

The back is blank with no location

with tarnish spots as shown

RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER JP BALL, BLACK REV. CB ALLEN HELENA MONTANA surname and it's something I don'tVery 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"