Rebecca

Artist Myron H. Kimball (American, born 1825)

Date1863

MediumAlbumen carte-de-visite

DimensionsImage and sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 1/16 inches (7.94 × 5.24 cm)
Mount: 3 7/8 × 2 3/8 inches (9.84 × 6.03 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3840

SignedAttribution on mount recto, bottom, in blue type: "PHOTOGRAPHED BY KIMBALL, 477 BROADWAY, N.Y."

InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in blue type: "REBECCA. / An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans."

MarkingsOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by P. / BACON in the Clerk's Office of the United States, for the / Southern District of New York."; On mount verso, center, in black type: "The nett proceeds from the sale of these / Photographs will be devoted exclusively to the edu- / cation of colored people in the Department of the / Gulf, now under the command of Maj.-Gen. Banks."

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DescriptionImage of a young woman kneeling in profile. Her hands rest on a small covered table. She is wearing a dark dresss with a cape and her long hair is curled.

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