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Cake board
1825-1835
1937.1562
Wood
Artist/Maker: John Conger

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"Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jefferson Davis' Negroes" from his Plantation on the Mississippi Below Vicksburg, Mississippi

"Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jefferson Davis' Negroes" from his Plantation on the Mississippi Below Vicksburg, Mississippi
Title
"Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jefferson Davis' Negroes" from his Plantation on the Mississippi Below Vicksburg, Mississippi
Date 
ca. 1862
Related People 
Related Person: Jefferson Davis
Related People 
Artist/Maker: Frederick B. Schell
Medium 
Graphite on beige paper
Dimensions 
Overall: 9 5/8 x 13 1/2 in. ( 24.4 x 34.3 cm )
Description 
Civil War Drawings Collection. Published in Frank Leslie's The Civil War In The United States, 1896.
Credit Line 
James B. Wilbur Fund
Object Number 
1945.580.107
Inscriptions 
Inscribed at upper left in graphite: "Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jeff. Davis / Negroes, from his plantation on the Mississippi / below Vickburg"
Provenance 
John T. Kavanaugh Collection, Rutherford, New Jersey, 1945
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.