Harvard Art Museums > 2010.86: Freedom's Banner. Charley, A Slave Boy from New Orleans. Photographs Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Freedom's Banner. Charley, A Slave Boy from New Orleans. (Charles Paxson) , 2010.86,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/173765. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2010.86 People Charles Paxson, American (active 1860s-1870s New York, NY) Title Freedom's Banner. Charley, A Slave Boy from New Orleans. Classification Photographs Work Type carte-de-visite, photograph Date 1864 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/173765 Physical Descriptions Medium Albumen silver print Technique Albumen silver print Dimensions image: 8.4 x 5.2 cm (3 5/16 x 2 1/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: verso, black ink, pre-printed mount: No. 7 [over] Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. for the Southern District of New York. [over] The nett proceeds from the sales 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 [over] CHAS. PAXSON PHOTOGRAPHER N.Y. [over] N.B.--All orders must be addressed to H.n. Bent, No. 1 Mercer Street, N.Y. Provenance Recorded Ownership History Evert Jansen Wendell, New York, bequest; to Harvard University, 1918, transferred; to Harvard Art Museums, 2010 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell Accession Year 2010 Object Number 2010.86 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Mazie Harris, Paper Promises: Early American Photography, exh. cat., Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2018), pl. 97 Exhibition History Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 01/14/2006 - 03/26/2006; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 04/21/2006 - 07/16/2006; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, 08/25/2006 - 11/26/2006 Paper Promises: Early American Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 02/27/2018 - 05/27/2018 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
