P2004.7: Rebecca, an Emancipated Slave, from New Orleans
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P2004.7
- People
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M.H. Kimball, American (active 1860s)
- Title
- Rebecca, an Emancipated Slave, from New Orleans
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph, carte-de-visite
- Date
- 1863
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/4585
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 8.3 x 5.4 cm (3 1/4 x 2 1/8 in.)
mount: 9.6 x 5.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, black ink, pre-printed: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen. Banks.
- inscription: recto, on mount below image, black ink, pre-printed: REBECCA, an Emanicipated Slave, from New Orleans. Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N.Y. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by GEO. H. BANKS, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. for the Sou. Dist. of N.Y.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Michael Alabnese, Kendall, New York, sold [through online auction]; to Harvard Art Museums, 2004
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund for Photographs
- Accession Year
- 2004
- Object Number
- P2004.7
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Mazie Harris, Paper Promises: Early American Photography, exh. cat., Getty Trust Publications (Los Angeles, 2018), pl. 100
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
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