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Figure 80: White and Black Slaves
Maker: Kimball
Sitter/Subject: unknown (“White and Black Slaves from New Orleans”)
Genre: studio portrait, social/political
Process: carte de visite; albumen print
Dimensions: cdv standard
Date: 1863
Collection: Greg French
Notes: Printed caption reads: “Black and White Slaves from New Orleans. Photographed by Kimball, 477 Broadway, N. Y. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by P. Bacon, in the Clerk’s Office of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.”
The boy at left is the same person identified as Isaac in Figure 31.