Our Protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans., 1864

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series Title

Slave Children of New Orleans

Medium

albumen print (carte-de-visite)

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.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2018.95.7

Artists / Makers

Charles Paxson (artist) American, active 1860s

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

(Thomas Harris, New York), c. 1990; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Harris, Thomas