2020.55: Learning is Wealth
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2020.55
- People
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Charles Paxson, American (active 1860s-1870s New York, NY)
- Title
- Learning is Wealth
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 19th century
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/369305
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
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photograph: 8.9 × 5.4 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.)
mount: 10 × 6.1 cm (3 15/16 × 2 3/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: printed on mount, below image: LEARNING IS WEALTH. / WILSON, CHARLEY, REBECCA & ROSA. / Slaves from New Orleans.
- inscription: verso of mount, printed: No. 6. / 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. / The nett proceeds from the sale of these Pho- / tographs will be devoted to the education of col- / ored people in the department of the Gulf, now / under the command of Maj. Gen. Banks. / CHAS. PAXSON, / PHOTOGRAPHER, / N. Y. / N. B. - All orders must be addressed to H. N. / Bent, No. 1 Mercer Street, N. Y.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Greg French, Jamaica Plain], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kenyon C. Bolton III Fund
- Accession Year
- 2020
- Object Number
- 2020.55
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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