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Photo, Print, Drawing Civil War contraband [William Headly, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina] / [William Headley, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina] / William Headly, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina] / William Headley, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina]

About this Item

Title

  • Civil War contraband

Other Title

  • [William Headly, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina]
  • [William Headley, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina]
  • William Headly, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina]
  • William Headley, escaped slave from plantation near Raleigh, North Carolina]

Summary

  • Photograph shows a portrait of a full-length portrait of an African American man facing front.

Created / Published

  • [between 1862 and 1865]

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Men--1860-1870
  • -  Freedmen--1860-1870
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans

Headings

  • Albumen prints--1860-1870.
  • Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1870.

Genre

  • Albumen prints--1860-1870
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1870
  • Cartes de visite--1860-1870

Notes

  • -  Title from inscription on back of the mount.
  • -  Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV100; contraband.
  • -  Alternate titles devised from information on two other copies of the same photograph, one sold on eBay, May 2022, and another published in Military Images, Vol. 38, no. 4, (Autumn 2020), page 28.
  • -  Identified as William Headly from information printed on the mount of another copy of the same photograph sold on eBay, May 2022.
  • -  Identified as William Headley on the back of another copy of the same photograph illustrated in "Chaplain Chronicles," Military Images, Vol. 38, no. 4, (Autumn 2020), page 28. Text on verso of card: "William Headley, a contraband from a plantation near Raleigh N.C. arrived at Newberne [i.e. New Bern] N.C. on the 20th May 1864 having been six weeks on the road, neither sleeping or eating in a house during the time. Two others left with him but were caught by the slave holders Blood Hounds and either killed or taken back. He was weak and nearly famished when he arrived. His clothes were of many colors and qualities. His cloak consisted of an old cotton grain bag, slit open on one side and raveled which gives the appearance of the side fringe. He appeared perfectly happy and satisfied upon reaching the Union lines and is now one of the best hands working on Fort Chase N.C. June 11, 1864." Illustrated alongside photograph of Horace James, Union Army chaplain and Freedmen's Bureau officer, who probably wrote the description of on the back of the photograph of Headley.
  • -  Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.169)
  • -  General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld
  • -  Published in: "African Americans" chapter of the ebook Great Photographs from the Library of Congress, 2013.

Medium

  • 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 14022, no. 169

Source Collection

  • Carte de visite photographs from the Gladstone collection

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 11196 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.11196
  • ppmsca 11197 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.11197

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010647919

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-11196 (digital file from original item, front)
  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-11197 (digital file from original item, back)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Access Advisory

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

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  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-11196 (digital file from original item, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-11197 (digital file from original item, back)
  • Call Number: LOT 14022, no. 169
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Civil War contraband. United States, None. [Between 1862 and 1865] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010647919/.

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Civil War contraband. United States, None. [Between 1862 and 1865] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010647919/.

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