Harvard Art Museums > P2004.6: A Slave Girl 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"A Slave Girl from New Orleans (Charles Paxson) , P2004.6,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/57835. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 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. 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 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
