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Oh! How I Love The Old Flag,
1864

Charles Paxson, active 1860s, New York, NY

2021-69

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Title

Oh! How I Love The Old Flag

Dates

1864

Maker

Charles Paxson

Medium

Carte-de-visite

Dimensions

image: 8.4 × 5.3 cm (3 5/16 × 2 1/16 in.) mount: 10.1 × 6.1 cm (4 × 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David B. Long in honor of John Burkhalter

Object Number

2021-69

Marks/Labels/Seals

Printed on front, bottom: "OH! HOW I LOVE THE OLD FLAG." | REBECCA, | A Slave Girl from New Orleans. Printed on the back: No. 5 | Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S | TACKABERRY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. | The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs | will be devoted to the education of Colored People in the de- | partment of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen'l Banks. Printed on the back, center: CHAS. PAXSON, | PHOTOGRAPHER | New York. Printed on the back, bottom: N. B. –All orders must be addressed to H. N. BENT, No. 1 | Mercer Street, New York.

Culture

American

Type

cartes-de-visite, photographs

Subject

figures (representations), children (people by age group), studios (work spaces), girls, flags

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Charles Paxson (active 1860s, New York, NY), Oh! How I Love The Old Flag, 1864. Carte-de-visite; 8.4 × 5.3 cm (image). Gift of David B. Long in honor of John Burkhalter (2021-69)

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