Untitled Image (Domestic Slave with Planter's Family, Virginia)
Shows female nursemaid holding white baby. The individuals are not identified, but the place is the town of New Market, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Image Title
Untitled Image (Domestic Slave with Planter's Family, Virginia)
RegID
SI-OB-1175
Date
1859-1864
Title
Untitled Image (Domestic Slave with Planter's Family, Virginia)
Source
Photograph by unidentified photographer, published in Ellen Dugan, ed., Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1996), p. 32. The photograph is held by a private collector.
Language
English
Item sets
Domestic Servants & Free People of Color
Spatial Coverage
North America--Virginia--New Market
Reproduced In
Ellen Dugan, ed., Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1996), p. 32.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
Dugan-1