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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P2004.6
People
Charles Paxson, American (active 1860s-1870s New York, NY)
Title
A Slave Girl from New Orleans
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph, carte-de-visite
Date
1864
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York State, New York City
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/57835

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 7.9 x 5 cm (3 1/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
mount: 10.1 x 6.1 cm (4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: recto, on mount below image, blue ink, pre-printed mount: A Slave Girl [over] from New Orleans
  • inscription: verso, black ink, pre-printed: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by T. TACKABERRY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York [over] The nett proceeds fromt he sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General Banks. [over] CHAS. PAXSON PHOTOGRAPHER, New York. [over] N.B.--All orders must be addressed to H.N. BENT, No. 1 Mercer Street, New York.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[UK Old Post Cards Ltd., Kent, England], 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
P2004.6
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. 99

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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