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[African American Woman holding a white Child]

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Description: [African American Woman holding a white Child]
Title[African American Woman holding a white Child]
Creator nameUnknown
Creator nationality/cultureUnknown
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1855
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsSixth-plate ambrotype, hand-tinted
LocationLibrary of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
https:/­/­www.loc.gov/­pictures/­item/­99404291/­
Accession numberAMB/TIN no. 1321 [P&P]
SubjectsPortrait photography--United States--19th centuryChildren--PortraitsSlavery--United StatesAfrican American women in artWomen, Black, in art
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5. Destroying Portraits
Jennifer Van Horn
Description: Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery
Portraits of Resistance: Activating Art During Slavery
~Picture the scene in Charleston, South Carolina, sometime between the summer of 1863 and the winter of 1865. South Carolina had seceded from the United States two...
Author
Jennifer Van Horn
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2022 by Jennifer Van Horn
Related print edition pages: pp.218-261
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00354.6
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23616&redirecttoanchor=101109
Chapter subject tags:Portrait painting, AmericanIconoclasmGenealogySlaves--Emancipation

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Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1900
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsGelatin silver print
LocationLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99472366/
Accession numberLOT 11930, no. 210 [P&P]
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Object typePhotograph
MaterialsAlbumen silver print (carte de visite)
Dimensions4 x 2 3/8 in. (10.2 x 6 cm)
LocationInternational Center of Photography, New York
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/objects/i-sell-the-shadow-to-support-the-substance-sojourner-truth
Accession number182.2003
Portrait of Sojourner Truth
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Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1761
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions77 1/8 x 67 5/8 in. (195.9 x 171.8 cm)
LocationCleveland Museum of Art
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.645
Accession number1942.645
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
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https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sargent-mrs-carl-meyer-and-her-children-t12988
Accession numberT12988
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameVan Vechten, Carl
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
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http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95507126/
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Senegal
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1905
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsPostcard
Dimensions87 x 137 mm
LocationPitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
http://photographs.prm.ox.ac.uk/pages/1998_209_9_7.html
Accession number1998.209.9.7
Senegal
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Creator rolePhotographer
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