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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.")
A Virginia slave child in 1863 / Van Dorn, photograph artist, 285 Fulton St., Brooklyn.
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Photograph shows a full-length portrait of a young girl, probably Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, facing slightly right.
"Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by T. C. Fanning, 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.
"Sold in Buchers Church, during the Civil War" written in ink on back of the mount.
"W0380" written in pencil on back of the mount.
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV104; slave children.
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.195)
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01/01/1863
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Library of Congress
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