| Creator |
Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880, photographer. |
| Contributor |
Tackaberry, S., copyright holder. |
|
Bent, H. N., distributor. |
|
National Freedman's Relief Association distributor. |
| Title |
Our protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave children from New Orleans [graphic] / Chas. Paxson, Photographer, New York. |
| Publisher |
[New York] |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1864 |
| Date |
1864 |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen mounted on card mount ; mount 7 x 10 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format) |
| Description |
Abolitionist group portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned children emancipated from enslavement, Rosina Downs, Charles
Taylor, and Rebecca Huger. Shows the children, who were freed in New Orleans by General Benjamin Butler, side-by-side, draped
in a large American flag. The children, touring the North with a group of people emancipated from enslavement to raise funds
for the Louisiana schools for the formerly enslaved established by Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen, Phillip Bacon, were
also publicized as the children denied entrance in December 1863 to the Philadelphia hotel, the St. Lawrence.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright information. Copyrighted by S. Tackaberry. |
|
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso. |
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Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: N.B.-All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, [National Freedmen's Relief Association],
No. 1 Mercer Street, New York.
|
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Stamped on verso: No. 9. |
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Stamped on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People
in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen'l Banks.
|
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See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864). |
|
See Kathleen Collin's "Portraits of slave children," History of photography 9 (July-September 1985), p. 187-210. |
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Purchase 2000. |
|
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. |
|
Huger, Rebecca, approximately 1852- -- Portraits. |
|
Taylor, Charles, approximately 1855- -- Portraits. |
|
African American boys -- Portraits. |
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African American girls -- Portraits. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States. |
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Flags -- American. |
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Freedmen -- Education -- Louisiana. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States. |
|
Freedom seekers -- United States. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870. |
|
Group portraits -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits-group-Emancipated Enslaved Children [P.9846] |
| Accession number |
P.9846 |
