A slave girl from New Orleans - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows a bust portrait of Rebecca Huger, facing right.

Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back.

Probably from a photograph by Chas. Paxson of New York.

"Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York" printed on back of the mount.

"The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be devoted to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General Banks" printed on back of the mount.

Two-cent tax stamp on back of the mount.

"WD1075" and "1075N" and "11-12" and "1530" written in pencil on back of the mount.

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV89; slave children.

Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.150)

african americans children freedmen louisiana new orleans girls albumen prints cartes de visite portrait photographs tax stamps new orleans la slave girl slave girl 1864 slave children facing right portrait images black history month black history month 19th century lot 14022 gladstone collection of african american photographs chas paxson chas charles paxson photo ultra high resolution high resolution american civil war civil war portrait bust library of congress facing right portrait

01/01/1864

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