Unidentified family members?, circa early 1870s
- Containers:
- Box 3, Folder 3
- Extent:
- 6 photographs
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The first item is a quarter-plate hand-tinted ambrotype (about 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches), taken about 1872, of a young very light-skinned woman in a fashionable and elaborate dress. She is the same young woman who appears in the albumen studio portrait of Peggie Harris, circa 1874. She is probably Annetta "Nettie" Harris Rosser, Fannie Rosser's mother. There are three color use copies of this ambrotype in the same folder.
The two tintypes are of an unidentified adult man of color, possibly Edmond B. Rosser around age 25-30, and of an unidentified woman of color, possibly his second wife Callie Higginbotham as a young woman.
Given their dress and the age of the images, these individuals are thought to have come from families who were free before the Civil War.
- Physical facet:
- 3 original photographs; 3 copy photographs
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