A Virginia slave child in 1863 / Van Dorn, photograph artist, 285 Fulton St., Brooklyn
Photographer: Van Dorn. Photograph Created: c1863.
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.
Citation: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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A Sad Story of Redemption by William Page Johnson II
Citation: The Fare Fact Gazette