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Kimball, W.W., fl. 1886 Rebecca, An emancipated slave from New Orleans

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06438 Author/Creator: Kimball, W.W., fl. 1886 Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1863 Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 10.1 x 6.2 cm. Order a Copy

Typed inscription on verso reads: "Proceeds from photograph sales go to the "Education of Colored people in the Dept. of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General [Nathaniel] Banks." Photo by Kimball, New Orleans. Depicts a very light-skinned former slave, with straight hair curled into fashionable spirals. She wears a child's day dress with dark trim.

Rebecca, fl. 1863

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