Beschreibung:

Lot includes 5 CDVs, offered with a complete issue of Harper's Weekly for January 30, 1864, featuring the full-page woodcut illustration, "Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored..." Plus a photostatic copy of the extensive and profusely illustrated article, "Portraits of Slave Children" by Kathleen Collins, from the July-September, 1985, issue of History of Photography. The following subjects are included: CDV of African American slave, Wilson Chinn, reading to 3 young, fair-skinned slaves, captioned Learning is Wealth/Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa,/Slaves from New Orleans, verso imprint of Chas. Paxson, New York, series No. 6, 1864 copyright line; 2 views of Rebecca, A Slave Girl from New Orleans, including "Oh! How I Love the Old Flag," series No. 5, by Paxson, and a vignetted, profile view by J.E. McClees, Philadelphia, 1863; and 2 CDVs of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence/ A redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia...baptized in Brooklyn...by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863, one by DeLamater, the other by Kellogg Brothers, each from Hartford, CT, and dated 1863. Three of the cartes also include the appeal, The nett proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen'l Banks. Several CDVs of this type were sold by the National Freedman's Association in 1864 and 1865 in order to garner the support of Northern whites who had no sympathy for black slaves, but were shocked and outraged at the sight of white slaves. The children in the photograph appear in other photographs and periodical articles of this time and are described as the immoral offspring of a slave-owner and one of his light-complexioned slaves, who was probably born in the same manner. Condition: Although the CDVs includes few scattered spots, they are in very good to near excellent condition overall. Rebecca CDV, by McClees, mount with rounded corners.