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Our Protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans.

ArtistAmerican, active 1860s–1870s
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Our Protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans.
Date1864
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 1 15/16 in. (8 × 4.9 cm)
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 1 15/16 in. (8 × 4.9 cm)
Mount: 4 × 2 3/8 in. (10.2 × 6.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors
Object number2020.88
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Cowan's Auction, Cincinnati, Ohio, American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Including Books: Timed Auction, April 10-20, 2020, Lot 83]; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, mount recto, bottom: OUR PROTECTION. // ROSA, CHARLEY, REBECCA. // Slave Children from New Orleans.

Printed in black, mount verso, center: No. 9. // Entered according to 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 […loss] New York. // // The net […loss] sale of these Photographs // will be devoted […loss] of Colored People in the de- // partment […loss] under the command of Maj. Gen’l // Banks. // // CHAS. PAXSON, // PHOTOGRAPHER, // New York. // // N. B.–All orders must be addressed to H. N. BENT, No. 1 // Mercer Street, New York.

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