Contributor |
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer. |
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McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
Title |
Rosa [graphic] : A slave girl from New Orleans. |
Publisher |
[Philadelphia] |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1863 |
Date |
[ca. 1863] |
Physical Description |
2 photographs : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 7 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) or smaller (carte de visite format) |
Description |
Abolitionist, vignette-size portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned child emancipated from enslavement, Rosina Downs. Freed
by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the child toured through the North with other people emancipated from enslavement
to raise funds for the schools of Louisiana for the formerly enslaved established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent
of Freedmen. Downs, daughter of a multiracial mother and Confederate soldier, was one of three touring children denied entrance
to a Philadelphia hotel in December 1863.
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Notes |
Title from item. |
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Date inferred from content. |
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Probably by Philadelphia photographer James E. McClees. |
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See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. |
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See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1983), p. 187-210. |
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One of the cartes de visite trimmed and originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War materials [(2)1540.F.13e].
McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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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.
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Subject |
Downs, Rosina, approximately 1858- -- Portraits. |
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African American girls -- Portraits. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States. |
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Freedmen -- Education -- Louisiana. |
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Racially mixed people. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States |
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Freedom seekers -- United States. |
Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870. |
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Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870. |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister) 1822-1896, collector. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits -sitter- Downs [P.8925.6; (2)1540.F.13e] |
Accession number |
P.8925.6 |
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(2)1540.F.13e |