Chas. Paxson, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; child sitting on flag, hands clasped, plaintive gaze upward to right at flag. Bunting in foreground, beneath her, and along left side. Stamped recto beneath photograph: "'Oh! How I Love the Old Flag.' REBECCA, A Slave Girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Paxson, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; child sitting on flag, hands clasped, plaintive gaze upward to right at flag. Bunting in foreground, beneath her, and along left side. Stamped recto beneath photograph: "'Oh! How I Love the Old Flag.' REBECCA, A Slave Girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite

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Title: Chas. Paxson, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; child sitting on flag, hands clasped, plaintive gaze upward to right at flag. Bunting in foreground, beneath her, and along left side. Stamped recto beneath photograph: "'Oh! How I Love the Old Flag.' REBECCA, A Slave Girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: 1864
Description: Stamped verso, "No. 5" Same inscriptions as 2111. Cf. Same image as D-140.
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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    THIS ITEM Chas. Paxson, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; child sitting on flag, hands clasped, plaintive gaze upward to right at flag. Bunting in foreground, beneath her, and along left side. Stamped recto beneath photograph: "'Oh! How I Love the Old Flag.' REBECCA, A Slave Girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite

Container / Volume

Box 11, folder 510

Access: Public
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Citation: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.