R.S. De Lamater, Photographer, 258 Main Street, Three Doors above Post Office, Hartford, CT Portrait of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence; girl in white gown, kneeling at chair, hands pressed together. Carte de visite

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > R.S. De Lamater, Photographer, 258 Main Street, Three Doors above Post Office, Hartford, CT Portrait of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence; girl in white gown, kneeling at chair, hands pressed together. Carte de visite

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Title: R.S. De Lamater, Photographer, 258 Main Street, Three Doors above Post Office, Hartford, CT Portrait of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence; girl in white gown, kneeling at chair, hands pressed together. Carte de visite
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: 1863
Description: Stamped recto, beneath photograph: "Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence. A redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence, baptized in Brooklyn at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by C.S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for Southern District New York."
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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Container / Volume

Box 11, folder 459

Access: Public
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Citation: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.