English: Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence born a slave in Virginia just before the Civil War. Saved 1863, and moved to Brooklyn where she was baptised by Henry Ward Beecher. Library of Congress metadata follows:
Title: Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, 5 years of age... / Kellogg Brothers, photographers, 279 Main St., Hartford, Conn.
Creator(s): Kellogg Brothers, photographer
Date Created/Published: c1863.
Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm.
Summary: Photograph shows a full-length portrait of the young girl with a drum, facing front.
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-11210 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-11211 (digital file from original item, back)
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Access Advisory: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information see,(https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html)
Call Number: LOT 14022, no. 176 [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
Title from item.
Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back.
Title continues: "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" printed on front of the mount.
"LV-1" written in pencil on back of the mount.
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV101; slave children.
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.176)
General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld
Subjects:
Lawrence, Fannie Virginia Casseopia.
African Americans--Children--1860-1870.
Freedmen--United States--1860-1870.
Girls--United States--1860-1870.
Format:
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
Ownership marks--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Collections:
Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs
Part of: Carte de visite photographs from the Gladstone collection
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