| Creator |
M'Pherson and Oliver, photographer. |
| Contributor |
Seaver, Chandler, Jr. |
|
McAllister, John A., 1822-1896, collector. |
|
McAllister & Brother, publisher. |
| Title |
[The scourged back] [graphic]. |
| Title |
Gordon |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia] : [McAllister & Brother] |
| 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.) (carte de visite format) |
| Description |
Three-quarter length portrait showing the severely scarred back of the former enslaved and Union soldier, Gordon, taken in
Louisiana and sent to the Surgeon General of Massachusetts.
|
| Notes |
Image reproduced as wood engraving with accompanying article in Harper's weekly, July 4, 1863, p. 429. (LCP **Per H, 1863.)
Name of photographer supplied by article.
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Title and publication information supplied by William Darrah's Cartes-de-visite in nineteenth century photography (Gettysburg:
William C. Darrah, 1981), p. 148.
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Manuscript note attributing original publisher on verso of P.8925.4: "Gordon" by C. Seaver, Jr. Seaver, Jr., a Boston photographer,
published the carte-de-visite in support of the abolitionist movement.
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Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Miscellanies [5786.F.157c]. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886. Accessioned
1982 [P.8925.4].
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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 |
Gordon -- Portraits. |
|
African American men -- Portraits. |
|
African American soldiers -- Portraits. |
|
Freedmen -- United States. |
|
Scars. |
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Enslaved persons -- Punishment & torture. |
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Whipping -- United States. |
|
Enslaved men -- United States. |
|
Free men -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Geographic subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870. |
|
Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870. |
| Printer |
McAllister & Brother, publisher. |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A., (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Gordon [5786.F.157c; P.8925.4] |
| Accession number |
5786.F.157c |
|
P.8925.4 |
