Learning is Wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans
1864
Artist, American, active 1860s
Artwork overview
-
Medium
albumen print (carte-de-visite)
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
image/sheet: 8.3 × 5.3 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/16 in.)
mount: 10.1 × 6 cm (4 × 2 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2022.86.1
Artwork history & notes
Inscriptions
lower center on mount printed in black ink: LEARNING IS WEALTH. / WILSON, CHARLEY, REBECCA & ROSA, / Slaves from New Orleans.; on verso, upper center printed in black ink: No. 6; upper center and center: Entered according to the 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 the 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.; center: CHAS. PAXSON, / PHOTOGRAPHER, / N. Y.; lower center: N. B. -- All orders must be addressed to H. N. / BENT, No. 1 Mercer Street, N. Y.