[Family of slaves at the Gaines' house] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Family of slaves at the Gaines' house], [1861 or 1862] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/19/19ded4272ac0-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Family of slaves at the Gaines' house]
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The title names a particular household, the Gaines' house, where a family of enslaved people was photographed around 1861 or 1862, in the first year or two of the Civil War. The print is a salted paper photograph, an early process that gives soft, warm-brown tones and a matte surface. It survives in a Civil War album kept by the sculptor Larkin G. Mead. The record says little about the people pictured, so the image is best read closely for the sitters' posture, dress and placement as a document of domestic life under slavery.
| Created / published | [1861 or 1862] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper. |
| Genre | Group portraits 1860-1870.Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Salted paper prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | With Civil War album kept by Larkin G. Mead. 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. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1975:071 |
| Subjects | African Americans--Domestic life--1860-1870. Families--1860-1870. Slaves--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,461 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218440 |
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