What Do I Want, John Henry?

What Do I Want, John Henry?

Photograph

Alexander Gardner

Maker
American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882

What Do I Want, John Henry?

Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. I, 1866.


November 1862
Albumen silver print, printed ca. 1866
Image: 7 × 9 1/16 in. (17.8 × 23 cm)
Mount: 12 5/8 × 16 7/8 in. (32 × 42.9 cm)
Museum accession
Inscriptions Printed on mount recto, BL: Alex. Gardner, Photographer,
Printed on mount recto, BC: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
Printed on mount recto, BR: 511 Seventh Street, Washington.
Printed on mount recto, BC: What Do I Want, John Henry?
Printed on mount recto, BL: No. 27.
Printed on mount recto, BR: Warrenton, Va., November, 1862.
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil and erased on mount recto, BR: Negro in \ slavery

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