Our Protection: Rosa, Charley, Rebecca

Artist Charles Paxson (American, 1841 - 1880)

Date1864

MediumAlbumen carte-de-visite

DimensionsImage and sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 1/16 inches (8.26 × 5.24 cm)
Mount: 3 5/8 × 2 3/16 inches (9.21 × 5.56 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.258

SignedAttribution on mount verso, center, in black type: "CHAS. PAXSON, / PHOTOGRAPHER / N.Y."

InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "OUR PROTECTION. / ROSA, CHARLEY, REBECCA."

MarkingsOn mount verso, top, in black type: "No. 9. / 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."; On mount verso, center, in black type: "The nett proceeds from the sale of the Pho- / tographs will be devoted to the educatin of col- / ored people in the department of the Gulf, now / under the command of Maj. Gen. Banks."; On mount verso, bottom, in black type: "N.B. -- All orders must be addressed to H. N. / BENT , No. 1 Mercer Street, N.Y."

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DescriptionImage of three children, individually wrapped in a flag - two with stripes, one with stars.Published References

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C. C. Leigh, "White and Colored Slaves," Harper's Weekly (January 30, 1864): 71.

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