"Our protection" (LOC)

Paxson, Chas., -1880,, photographer.

 

"Our protection"

 

[New York] : [Charles Paxson], [1864]

 

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format)

 

Notes:

Photograph shows freed slave children Rosina Downs, Charles Taylor, and Rebecca Huger, each wrapped in a portion of the U.S. flag.

Photographer's and children's names from another copy processed as LOT 14022, no. 139. DLC

Title from item.

Printed on verso: "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 Maj. Gen Banks" ; "All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, Station D, New York." DLC

Tax stamp on verso. DLC

Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072)

Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

African Americans--Children--1860-1870.

Freedmen--Louisiana--New Orleans--1860-1870.

Girls--1860-1870.

Boys--1860-1870.

Flags--American--1860-1870.

 

Format: Albumen prints--1860-1870.

Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Group portraits--1860-1870.

Cartes de visite--1860-1870.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.41752

 

Call Number: LOT 14043-2, no. 187

 

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