Figure 31: Emancipated
Maker: Kimball
Sitter/Subject: Isaac and Rosa
Genre: studio portrait, social-political
Process: carte de visite, albumen print
Dimensions: cdv standard
Date: 1863
Collection: Greg French
Notes: text reads in part: “ISAAC and ROSA, Emancipated slave Children, for the Free Schools of Louisiana. Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N. Y. Ent’d accord’g to act of Congress in the year 1863...”
Printed text on the back of the card reads: “The proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major-General Banks.”