Details
Creator Kellogg Brothers, photographer.
Title Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence [graphic] : A redeemed slave child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863. / Kellogg Brothers, 279 Main St. Hartford, Conn.
Publisher New York : C. S. Lawrence
Date [1863]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (4.25 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Full-length studio portrait of the acclaimed emancipated slave girl. Depicts Lawrence standing behind a balustrade. She is attired in a fashionable off-the-shoulder white dress with dark stripes on the bodice and tiny polk dots on the skir also adorned with a dark trim. Dark-colored ribbons adorn the edges of her cap sleeves. A vase with flowers adorns the post of the balustrade on which Lawrence rests her elbow.
Notes Publication information from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
Photographer's imprint on verso. Includes an ornament depicting a bundled and intertwined ribbon bordered by vinery.
See Kathleen Collin, "Portraits of Slave Children," History of Photography 9 (July-September, 1985), p. 187-210.
Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund.
Subject Lawrence, Fannie Virginia Casseopia, approximately 1858- -- Portraits.
Freedmen -- United States.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
African American girls -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Genre Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870.
Printer Lawrence, Catherine S., copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Lawrence [P.2015.23.1]
Accession number P.2015.23.1