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![Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, five years of age as she appeared when found in slavery. Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine [i.e., Catherine] S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863 / photographed by Kellogg Brothers, 279 Main Street, Hartford Conn.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDEvZmFubmllLXZpcmdpbmlhLWNhc3Nlb3BpYS1sYXdyZW5jZS1hLXJlZGVlbWVkLXNsYXZlLWNoaWxkLWZpdmUteWVhcnMtb2YtYWdlLWU4NjFjYy02NDAuanBn/40/49/webp "Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, five years of age as she appeared when found in slavery. Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine [i.e., Catherine] S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863 / photographed by Kellogg Brothers, 279 Main Street, Hartford Conn.")
![Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, five years of age as she appeared when found in slavery. Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine [i.e., Catherine] S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863 / photographed by Kellogg Brothers, 279 Main Street, Hartford Conn.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDgvZmFubmllLXZpcmdpbmlhLWNhc3Nlb3BpYS1sYXdyZW5jZS1hLXJlZGVlbWVkLXNsYXZlLWNoaWxkLWZpdmUteWVhcnMtb2YtYWdlLWIzMjFlNi02NDAuanBn/40/49/webp "Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, five years of age as she appeared when found in slavery. Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine [i.e., Catherine] S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863 / photographed by Kellogg Brothers, 279 Main Street, Hartford Conn.")
Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May 1863. Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, 5 years of age / photograph by Renowden, 65 Fulton Av., Brooklyn.
Summary
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Catharine Lawrence with former slave child, Fannie Lawrence. They are sitting, holding hands, 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.
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV101; slave children.
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.178)
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Date
01/01/1863
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Library of Congress
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