Description: McPherson & Oliver,, photographer.
[Two unidentified escaped slaves wearing ragged clothes]
[Baton Rouge, La.] : [McPherson & Oliver], [between 1861 and 1865]
1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 7 cm (carte de visite format)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Notation on verso: "Contrabands just arrived. 'True to the life.' J.G.(?)W." DLC
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072)
Purchased from: Everitt Bowles, Woodstock, Georgia, March 2016.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
African Americans--Economic & social conditions--1860-1870.
Fugitive slaves--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA,
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53045
Call Number: LOT 14043-2, no. 458
Owner: The Library of Congress
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