Portrait of child with beheaded nanny! Image: Another version of the "hidden" mother or guardian...in this case an African-American servant who was only in the picture as a lap for the child.
Another version of the "hidden" mother or guardian...in this case an African-American servant who was only in the picture as a lap for the child.

Portrait of child with beheaded nanny!

  • tintype

Collection: From Slavery to Jim Crow: Picturing African-Americans x

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Other Work From The Collection of Jim and Jane Finch: Vintage and Contemporary Photographs

Portrait: Man of Means, Philadelphia, 1860s
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