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Rinhart, no. 119.
Modern handwritten note in case: Slave nanny/white child image came from an estate sale somewhere in the flat lands delta area of Arkansas. Likely from one of the following Arkansas towns: Helena, West Memphis, Forest City, Elaine, Brinkley, Cotton Plant, Clarendon, Pine Bluff.
Purchase; Bruce Kusrow; 1994; (DLC/PP-1994:035).
Forms part of: Ambrotype/Tintype photograph filing series (Library of Congress).
Published as "Nursemaid with her charge" in When they were young : a photographic retrospective of childhood from the Library of Congress / Robert Coles. Carlsbad, Calif. : Kales Press ..., c2002, p. 85.
Exhibited: When they were young, Library of Congress, 2002-2003.
Exhibited: "Only skin deep" at the International Center for Photography, N.Y., 2003-2005.
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