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Rosa, an emancipated slave from New Orleans. [graphic].
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Title
Rosa, an emancipated slave from New Orleans. [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1863
Date
[ca. 1863]
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 8 x 6 cm (3.25 x 2.25 in.) (carte de visite)
Description
Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned child emancipated from enslavement, Rosina Downs, attired in a hat, a pleated dress with stripes at the bottom, and a dark-colored cape. 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 Louisiana schools 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.
Notes
Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Probably by New York photographer, M.H. Kimball.
See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71.
See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210.
Accessioned 1982.
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
Downs, Rosina, approximately 1858- -- Portraits.
African American girls -- Portraits.
Freedmen -- Education -- Louisiana.
Freedmen.
Racially mixed people.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Freedom seekers -- United States.
Genre
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- Downs [P.8925.5]
Accession number
P.8925.5
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African American History Photographs
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