| Creator |
Kimball, M. H., photographer. |
| Contributor |
Hanks, George, approximately 1922-1871, copyright holder. |
|
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
| Title |
Emancipated slaves. [graphic] : Brought from Louisiana by Col. Geo. H. Hanks. The children are from the schools established
by order of Maj. Gen. Banks / Photographed by M.H. Kimball, 477 Broadway, N.Y.
|
| Publisher |
[New York] |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1863 |
| Date |
1863 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen mounted on cardboard ; sheet 8 x 10 in. |
| Description |
Abolitionist group portrait of emancipated enslaved men, woman, and children, freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans,
on tour through the North to raise funds for the emancipated enslaved schools of Louisiana. Depicts Wilson Chinn, his forehead
branded with the initial of his former master; Colonel Hank's cook, Mary Johnson; ordained preacher, Robert Whitehead; African
American child, Isaac White; and the fair-skinned children Charles Taylor, Augusta Broujey, Rebecca Huger, and Rosina Downs.
Names of the emancipated enslaved people printed below image.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Geo. H. Hanks, in the Clerk's Office
of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.
|
|
Image reproduced as wood engraving with accompanying article in Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 69 and p. 71. (LCP **Per
H, 1864).
|
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Copyrighted by George H. Hanks, abolitionist, civil rights activist, and Civil War colonel. |
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Label on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored
people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen. Banks.
|
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Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of miscellaneous Civil War prints. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. |
|
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.
|
|
See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210. |
| Subject |
Broujey, Augusta, approximately 1854- -- Portraits. |
|
Chinn, Wilson, approximately 1803- -- Portraits. |
|
Downs, Rosina, approximately 1858- -- Portraits. |
|
Huger, Rebecca, approximately 1852- -- Portraits. |
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Johnson, Mary -- Portraits. |
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Taylor, Charles, approximately 1855- -- Portraits. |
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White, Isaac, approximately 1855- -- Portraits. |
|
Whitehead, Robert -- Portraits. |
|
African American boys -- Portraits. |
|
African American girls -- Portraits. |
|
African American men -- Portraits. |
|
African American women -- Portraits. |
|
Antislavery movements. |
|
Freedmen -- Education -- Louisiana. |
|
Racially mixed people. |
|
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States. |
|
Enslaved boys -- United States. |
|
Enslaved girls -- United States. |
|
Enslaved men -- United States. |
|
Enslaved women -- United States. |
|
Freedom seekers -- United States. |
| Genre |
Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Group portraits -- 1860-1870. |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| group portrait photographs - emancipation [(1)5786.F.108] |
| Accession number |
(1)5786.F.108 |
