Our Protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans.
1864
Artist, American, active 1860s
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print (carte-de-visite)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 8.2 × 5.3 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/16 in.)
mount: 10 × 6 cm (3 15/16 × 2 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2018.95.7
Artwork history & notes
Inscriptions
lower center on mount printed in black ink: OUR PROTECTION. / ROSA, CHARLEY, REBECCA. / Slave Children from New Orleans.; on verso, center printed in black ink: No. 9. / Entered according to act of Congress, in the / year 1864, by S.TACKABERRY. In the Clerk's / Office of the U.S. for the Southern District of / New York. / The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these Pho- / tographs will be devoted to the education of col- / ored people in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen. Banks. / CHAS. PAXSON, / PHOTOGRAPHER, / N.Y. / N.B.-- All orders must be addressed to H.N. / Bent, No. 1 Mercer Street, N.Y.