PhotographsAmerican19th century
"The Peculiar Institution" Illustrated [Gordon under medical inspection]
April 2, 1863, printed later
Artists
Chandler Seaver, Jr.Artist
McPherson & OliverArtist
Dimensions
image: 8.5 x 5.5 cm (3 3/8 x 2 3/16 in.) mount: 10 x 6.4 cm (3 15/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest from Evert Jansen Wendell, 1918, on deposit at the Fogg Art Museum. Evert Jansen Wendell, unknown, bequest to the Harvard College Library, 1918.
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