Figure 33: Branded Slave
Maker: Kimball
Sitter/Subject: Wilson Chinn
Genre: studio portrait, social-political
Process: carte de visite, albumen print
Dimensions: cdv standard
Date: 1863 Collection: Greg French
Notes: text reads in part: “Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana; also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves. Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N. Y. Ent’d accord’g to act of Congress in the year 1863...”
Text printed on the reverse 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.” Reverse stamped: “All Orders Must Be Addressed to H. N. Bent, 1 Mercer St., N. Y.”
Wilson Chinn is also portrayed in Figure 85.