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(MILITARY.) [CIVIL WAR].
Carte de visite of a white soldier, probably
non-com officer with his black aide.
Typical studio-posed carte de visite; the back-
ground with a palm tree, possibly suggesting South Carolina; some speckling to the right
side.
Philadelphia, circa 1861-1865
[800/1,200]
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(MILITARY.) PHOTOGRAPHY.
Group of 6 carte-de-visite photographs
of freed children.
2 of Fannie Casseopia Lawrence, standing and seated * 3 of Rebecca,
Charlie and Rosa, standing and seated * and one of Wilson (Chinn), with Charlie,
Rebecca and Rosa. All bear photographer’s stamps on the reverse, but only four of the six
bear the information that proceeds go to relief of freedmen and refugees. All are in good
condition, but
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
New York, Boston and Hartford, circa 1863
[2,000/3,000]
These photographs were originally taken by agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau to be sold as fundraisers
for food, clothing and schools. The children, notable Fannie, and Charlie were quite light-skinned and
were no doubt included to demonstrate the sexual abuse that many slave women were subjected to. In
addition to the images of “white-looking” children there were the likes of Wilson Chinn, whose fore-
head was branded with “V.B.M” by his owner, or Mary Johnson the cook, whose arms were scarred
from her mistress’s habit of cutting her arms when she was angry—-on her back 50 scars from her
master’s rawhide.
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Lot 396