Slave quarters of Jefferson Davis plantation
Summary
Photograph shows the slave quarters on Brierfield, the Jefferson Davis plantation.
Title from inscription on item.
Gladstone's inventory code and notes: CDV60.
"Sent home by Elizabeth Findley Missionary to the freedmen" inscribed on front. "Graveyard Joe Davis Plac[e], Davis Bend, Miss" inscribed in ink on the back of the mount.
Matted with a portrait of Jefferson Davis by Wm. S. Pendleton (LOT 14024, no. 86a)
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.56b).
Tags
Date
01/01/1860
Location
Clearwater, 35.92341, -90.25704
Source
Library of Congress
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