Creator |
Kimball, M. H. photographer. |
Contributor |
Hanks, George H., copyright holder. |
Title |
Isaac and Rosa, emancipated slave children, from the free schools of Louisiana. [graphic] / Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway,
N.Y.
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Publisher |
[New York] |
Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1863 |
Date |
1863 |
Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 7 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format) |
Description |
Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized emancipated enslaved children, Isaac White and Rosina Downs, standing, arm-in-arm.
Isaac has brown skin, and wears a shirt jacket, pants, and broad tie. He has his left hand tucked into his shirt jacket. Rosina
has fair skin, and wears an off-the-shoulder, calf-length dress, cinched at the waist, and with stripe details on the neckline
and skirt. She also wears pantaloons. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the children toured through the North
with other emancipated enslaved people, and Colonel George H. Hanks, to raise funds for the emancipated enslaved schools of
Louisiana established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen.
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Notes |
Title from item. |
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Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863 by Geo. H. Hanks, in the Clerk's Office
of the U.S. for the Sou. Dist. of N.Y.
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See Harper's weekly, January 30, 1864, p. 71. (LCP **Per H, 1864). |
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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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Accessioned 1982. |
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Description revised 2022. |
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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 |
Downs, Rosina, approximately 1858- -- Portraits. |
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White, Isaac, approximately 1855- -- Portraits. |
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African American boys -- Portraits. |
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African American girls -- Portraits. |
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Antislavery movements -- United States. |
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Freedmen -- Education -- Louisiana. |
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Racially mixed people. |
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States. |
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Enslaved boys -- United States. |
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Enslaved girls -- United States. |
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Freedom seekers -- United States. |
Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Group portraits -- 1860-1870. |
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Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| group portrait cdvs-Emancipated Enslaved Children [P.8925.7] |
Accession number |
P.8925.7 |