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EMANCIPATED SLAVES BROUGHT FROM NEW ORLEANS BY COL. GEORGE H. HANKS
EMANCIPATED SLAVES BROUGHT FROM NEW ORLEANS BY COL. GEORGE H. HANKS
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  • TITLE: EMANCIPATED SLAVES BROUGHT FROM NEW ORLEANS BY COL. GEORGE H. HANKS
  • ARTIST/SOURCE: MYRON H. KIMBALL
  • MEDIUM: DYE BASED PHOTOLITHOGRAPH, AFTER ALBUMEN SILVER PRINT FROM GLASS NEGATIVE. (* Item is not underneath a mat. Image represents a flat surface impression of being matted).
  • ORIGINAL DATE/PERIOD: DECEMBER 1863
  • DIMENSIONS: 8X10
  • ORIGIN: NEW ORLEANS
  • DESCRIPTION:
  • This lot is a Dye Based Photolithograph, and is a meticulous restoration print, produced after the original photograph. Rather than being a one-of-a-kind work, it is an open edition, non-commercial sheet-fed mechanical print, analagous to the process used for sheet-fed photogravures. The paper is a 200 GSM, 15 MIL, Matte, Double-Weight Warm Tone, 100% Cotton Rag that is Light Fast and Acid Free. It is enclosed in a polypropolene, archival presentation pocket and reinforced before shipping.

  • In December 1863, Colonel George Hanks of the 18th Infantry, Corps dAfrique (a Union corps composed entirely of African-Americans), accompanied eight emancipated slaves from New Orleans to New York and Philadelphia expressly to visit photographic studios. A publicity campaign promoted by Major General Nathaniel Banks of the Department of the Gulf, and by the Freedmans Relief Association of New York, its sole purpose was to raise money to educate former slaves in Louisiana, a state still partially held by the Confederacy. One group portrait, several cartes de visite of pairs of students, and numerous portraits of each student were made. When this photograph was published as a woodcut in Harpers Weekly of January 30, 1864, it was accompanied by the biographies of the eight emancipated slaves, which served successfully to fan the abolitionist cause. Two are quoted below.

    AUGUSTA BROUJEY is nine years old. Her mother, who is almost white, was owned by her half-brother, named Solamon, who still retained two of her children. WILSON CHINN is about 60 years old. He was raised by Isaac Howard of Woodford County, Kentucky. When 21 years old he was taken down the river and sold to Volsey B. Marmillion, a sugar planter about 45 miles above New Orleans. This man was accustomed to branding his negroes, and Wilson has on his forehead the letters V. B. M. Of the 210 slaves on this plantation 105 left at one time and came into the Union camp. Thirty of them had been branded like cattle with a hot iron, four of them on the forehead, and the others on the breast or arm.

    In his negative, Kimball retouched the brand on Wilson Chinns forehead to make the initials appear more visible on the print.

  • Exhibition History:

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Waking Dream: Photographys First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, May 25, 1993–July 4, 1993.

    Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Waking Dream: Photographys First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, August 7, 1993–October 2, 1993.

    National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The Waking Dream: Photographys First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection, June 19, 1994–September 11, 1994.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Johnson Gallery, Selections from the Collection 41a, August 15, 2005–October 3, 2005.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Johnson Gallery, Selections from the Collection 41b, October 3, 2005–January 8, 2006.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photography and the American Civil War, April 2, 2013–September 2, 2013.

    Gibbes Museum of Art. Photography and the American Civil War, September 27, 2013–January 5, 2014.

    New Orleans Museum of Art. Photography and the American Civil War, January 31, 2014–May 4, 2014.
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