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Collection Reference Number GLC05111.02.1052
From Archive Folder Cartes de visites 
Title Our Protection, Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans.
Date 1860
Document Type Photograph
Content Description Thin red border on recto. Three young slave children 2 girls and 1 boy wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. Imprint on recto "Our Protection, Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans." Photographers imprint on verso: "No. 9. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the United States. for the Southern District of New York. The nett [sic] 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 Major General Banks. Chas. Paxson. Photographer, New York. N. B. All orders must be addressed to H. N. Bent, No. 1 Mercer Street, New York."
Subjects Slave Life  Abolition  Slave Children of New Orleans  American Symbols and Seals  American Flag  Slavery  African American History  Women's History  Education  Freemen  Charity and Philanthropy  Union General  Union Forces  Confederate States of America  Civil War  Military History  
Theme The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans; Children & Family; Women in American History; Education
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945