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Fannie Lawrence [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A127233
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Details
Contributor
Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896, photographer.
Title
Fannie Lawrence [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1863
Date
[ca. 1863]
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 7 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description
Full-length portrait of the acclaimed girl emancipated from enslavement. Freed in Virginia by military nurse Catherine S. Lawrence, Fannie was publicized as the "redeemed slave child" baptized by Henry Ward Beecher at age five at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn in May 1863. Depicts Lawrence, dressed in a fancy hat and cape, leaning against a balustrade.
Notes
Probably by Boston photographer James Wallace Black.
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Dated based on the presented age of the sitter.
See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September, 1985), p. 187-210.
Purchase 1987.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Lawrence [P.9194]
Accession number
P.9194
In Collections
African American History Photographs
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