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Gordon, A Runaway Mississippi Slave, or "The Scourged Back"
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Albumen silver print from glass negative
Rights: Public Domain
Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel 2019
Title: Gordon, A Runaway Mississippi Slave, or "The Scourged Back"
Description:
Albumen silver print from glass negative.
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