Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a Redeemed Slave Child

Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a Redeemed Slave Child

Photograph

Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a Redeemed Slave Child

[Carte-de-visite album, "Photographs"]


ca. 1863
Albumen silver print
Image: 3 3/8 × 2 1/16 in. (8.5 × 5.3 cm)
Overall: 6 3/16 × 5 1/8 in. (15.7 × 13 cm)
Gift of Dr. James Stewart, 2001
Inscriptions recto (typed): FANNIE VIRGINIA CASSEOPIA LAWRENCE
A redeemed SLAVE CHILD, 5 years of age. Redeeme[illegible]
[illegible]n Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence; Baptized in Brooklyn, a
Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by C.S.
[illegible]wrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Uni[illegible]
[illegible]es, for the Southern District of New York.
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