Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence

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Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence,

May 1863

Unknown photographer
2021-68

Information

Title
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence
Dates

May 1863

Maker
Unknown photographer
Medium
Carte-de-visite
Dimensions
image: 8 × 5.7 cm (3 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.) mount: 10.1 × 6.1 cm (4 × 2 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David B. Long in honor of John Burkhalter
Object Number
2021-68
Marks/Labels/Seals
Printed on front, bottom: FANNIE VIRGINIA CASSEOPIA LAWRENCE, | A Redeemed SLAVE CHILD, 5 years of age. Redeemed | in Virginia, by Catharine S. Lawrence; Baptized in Brooklyn, at | Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863. | Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by C.S. | Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United | States, for the Southern District of New York.
Culture
American
Type
photographs, cartes-de-visite
Subject
children (people by age group), figures (representations), girls, studios (work spaces), drums (membranophones)

Purchased by David B. Long; given to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2021.

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