TWO AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELATED DETAILED PENCIL DRAWINGS ON PAPER, one (8 7/8 x 6 inches) picturing a working man with hat and pipe, carrying a full sack (of coal?) over his shoulder striding with a pair of goats in front of fenced-in simple clapboard houses and a stand of trees, the other (6 x 8 7/8 inches) picturing a well-dressed man pouring a bucket of coal into a large sack held by two ladies, their children and a carriage to their side and a clapboard building behind,; both signed by Schmidt, a native of Germany and active as an artist there and in Alabama, “known for African-American genre work”(AskArt). Smudge in lower corner of the first drawing, else very good.