| Creator |
Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880, photographer. |
| Contributor |
Tackaberry, S., copyright holder. |
|
Bent, H. N., distributor. |
|
National Freedman's Relief Association, distributor. |
| Title |
Learning is wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, slaves 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 with ink drawing on card mount ; mount 7 x 10 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format) |
| Description |
Abolitionist group portrait of propagandized people emancipated enslavement in New Orleans by General Benjamin Butler. Fair-skinned
children Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, Rosina Downs, and dark-skinned adult Wilson Chinn, his forehead branded with the initials
of his former enslaver, all hold books and read together. The emancipated people were touring the North to raise funds for
the Louisiana schools for formerly enslaved people established by Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen, Phillip Bacon.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright information. Copyright by S. Tackaberry. |
|
Photographer's imprint stamped on verso. |
|
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.
|
|
Stamped on verso: No. 6. |
|
Stamped on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of the Colored People
in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen'l Banks.
|
|
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 19855), p. 187-210. |
|
Purchase 2001. |
|
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 |
Chinn, Wilson, approximately 1803- -- Portraits. |
|
Downs, Rosina, approximately 1858- -- Portraits |
|
Taylor, Charles, approximately 1855- -- Portraits. |
|
Huger, Rebecca, approximately 1852- -- Portraits. |
|
African American boys -- Portraits. |
|
African American girls -- Portraits. |
|
African American men -- Portraits. |
|
Freedmen. |
|
Freedmen -- Education -- Louisiana. |
|
Racially mixed people. |
|
Reading. |
|
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States. |
|
Antislavery movements -- United States. |
|
Freedom seekers -- United States. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
|
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870. |
|
Group portraits -- 1860-1870. |
|
Anti-slavery photographic prints -- 1860-1870. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits-group-Emancipated Enslaved Children [P.9879] |
| Accession number |
P.9879 |
