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Lesson 9 Document 39

TITLE:  Oh carry me back to ole Virginny / Lith. & printed in colors by Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, New York.
CALL NUMBER:  LOT 10618-61 <item> [P&P]
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REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-2356 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZ62-122077 (b&w film copy neg.)
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SUMMARY:  Tobacco package label showing African American banjo player, woman, and three children in cabin. MEDIUM:  1 print : lithograph, color.
CREATED/PUBLISHED:  New York : Robertson, Seibert & Shearman, c1859.
NOTES:Copyright by G.W. Hillman & Co.

Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997.

SUBJECTS: African Americans--Domestic life--Virginia--1850-1860.
Families--Virginia--1850-1860.
Slaves--Virginia--1850-1860.
FORMAT: Tobacco package labels 1850-1860.
Lithographs Color 1850-1860.
 

 

 

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