Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence / Kellogg Brothers, photographers, 279 Main St., Hartford, Conn.

Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slave, Fannie Lawrence standing by a table holding a hat and a bouquet, facing front.

"Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrence, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York" printed on front of the mount.

Caption below image: "A redeemed slave child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia, by Catharine S. Lawrence; Baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863".

"LE585" written in pencil on back of the mount.

Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV104; slave children.

Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.203)

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