[African American woman holding baby]

[African American woman holding baby]

Photograph

[African American woman holding baby]

ca. 1860
Ambrotype with applied color
Image: 2 × 1 1/2 in. (5.1 × 3.8 cm) (1/9 plate)
Case: 2 7/8 × 2 9/16 × 3/4 in. (7.3 × 6.5 × 1.9 cm)
Purchase
Inscriptions Inscribed in pen on applied label on spine of case: 662
Entry 662 in Mackay's notebook (located in library): Small 1/9 size ambrotype of ante-bellum Civil War negro slave girl holding little white baby girl. Received in trade along with #663 and 30 S.F. Calif. stereos for once dag. stereo. Slide of Table Rock, Niagara Falls. From E. Barkey, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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