Original carte de visite (CDV) studio portrait, captioned “Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence. A Redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863.”
[Imprint on verso:] Hartford, Conn. Kellogg Brothers, 1863. Image measures approx. 3.25 x 2.25 inches (on a 4 x 2.5 inch printed mount). An evocative image of a little girl who embodied all the tortuous complexities of American race, and who was for a time during the Civil War a...... More