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Girard slave pens. [graphic] / W.N. Jennings.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A129993
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Creator
Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer.
Title
Girard slave pens. [graphic] / W.N. Jennings.
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1894
Date
[1894]
Physical Description
1 negative : glass ; negative 8 x 10 in.
Description
Exterior view of the entranceway to stone pens for the purpose of incarcerating enslaved persons of Philadelphia banker, financier, and Louisiana plantation owner, Stephen Girard. Shows a wooden ladder leading to an open door. In the right are two windows covered in bars. Below are two covered basements windows with a wooden crate leaning against the one in the left. The dilapidated walls show exposed brick.
Notes
Title from negative sleeve.
Photographer's imprint inscribed on negative.
Negative cracked.
Purchase 1981.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
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
Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831.
Dungeons.
Slave quarters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Enslaved people -- Structures -- United States.
Enslavers -- United States.
Genre
Glass plate negatives -- 1890-1900.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Jennings - glass negatives [P.9480.50]
Accession number
P.9480.50 (g)
In Collections
African American History Photographs
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