| Creator |
Van Dorn, photographer. |
| Contributor |
Fanning, T. C., copyright holder. |
| Title |
A Virginia slave child in 1863. [graphic] / Van Dorn, Photograph Artist, 285 Fulton St., Brooklyn. |
| Date |
1863 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 6 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite) |
| Description |
Three-quarter length portrait of five-year old child emancipated from enslavement, Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, with
her adoptive mother Catherine S. Lawrence. Freed in Virginia by Lawrence, a military nurse, Fannie was publicized as the "redeemed
slave child" baptized by Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn in May 1863. Depicts the fair-skinned Fannie, attired
in a straw hat, a cape, and a dress, standing and holding the gloved hand of the seated Catherine Lawrence, attired in a bonnet
with a black lace veil and a bow under her chin, a dark-colored dress, and a cape.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by T.C. Fanning, in the Clerk's office
of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
|
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Photographer's imprint stamped on verso. |
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Manuscript note on verso: Plymouth Church. |
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Copyrighted by T.C. Fanning. Possibly New York publisher, Thomas C. Fanning. |
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See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children" History of photography 9 (July-September, 1985), p. 187-210. |
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Purchase 2002. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
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.
|
| Subject |
Lawrence, Fannie Virginia Casseopia, approximately 1858- -- Portraits. |
|
Lawrence, Catherine S. -- Portraits. |
|
African American girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Portraits. |
|
Antislavery movements -- United States. |
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Freedmen -- New York (State) -- New York. |
|
Racially mixed people. |
|
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States. |
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Enslaved girls -- United States. |
|
Freedom seekers -- United States. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870. |
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Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Lawrence [P.9995] |
| Accession number |
P.9995 |
