Details
Creator Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896, photographer.
Contributor Lawrence, Catherine S., copyright holder.
Title Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence [graphic] : A redeemed slave child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863.
Publisher [Boston]
Publisher MASS. Boston. 1863
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Full-length portrait of the acclaimed girl emancipated from enslavement. Depicts Lawrence, attired in a lavish off-the-shoulder dress, seated, and holding a hat adorned with a ribbon and feathers in her lap. She is posed next to a basket and in front of a maritime backdrop. An outstretched drape covers her seat.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Purchase 2014.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
See Kathleen Collin, "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September, 1985), p. 187-210.
Subject Lawrence, Fannie Virginia Casseopia, approximately 1858- -- Portraits.
African American girls -- United States -- Portraits.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Freedmen -- United States.
Racially mixed people.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
Enslaved girls -- United States.
Freedom seekers -- United States.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Printer Lawrence, Catherine S., copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Lawrence [P.2014.13]
Accession number P.2014.13