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Virginia Casseopia Lawrence [holding a drum]
Artist
Kellogg Brothers
(American)
Date1863
MediumAlbumen carte-de-visite
DimensionsImage and sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 3/16 inches (7.94 × 5.56 cm)
Mount: 3 15/16 × 2 3/8 inches (10 × 6.03 cm)
Mount: 3 15/16 × 2 3/8 inches (10 × 6.03 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3857
SignedAttribution on mount verso, center, in black type: "KELLOGG BROTHERS, / PHOTOGRAPHERS, / 279 MAIN ST., / HARTFORD, CONN."
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "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".
MarkingsOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "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 the Southern District of New York."
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