Chas. Paxson, Photographer, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; young girl, seated in plaintive pose with clasped hands, hair in net, checked dress; bunting from flag is at right. 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, Photographer, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; young girl, seated in plaintive pose with clasped hands, hair in net, checked dress; bunting from flag is at right. 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, Photographer, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; young girl, seated in plaintive pose with clasped hands, hair in net, checked dress; bunting from flag is at right. 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: One of a dozen cartes de visite, used as anti-slavery propaganda, in the collection (D-139 through D-144 and 2110 to 2115). Inscriptions verso: Item "No. 5;" Copyright notice: "Entered according to an 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." Benefit notice: "The net 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 Maj. Gen'l Banks." Photographer's stamp: "Chas. Paxson, Photographer, New York." And, "N.B.--All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, No. 1 Mercer Street, New York."
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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Box 11, folder 452

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.