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Title: Photograph of an African American man with prosthetic leg
Creator: Quimby & Co
Contributor: Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1860
Contributing Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information: Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description: Studio portrait CDV of an African American man with prosthetic leg and crutches. The man is seated in front of a studio backdrop with crutches leaning on his thigh. A prosthetic leg is visible extending from his right pant leg.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
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Photograph signed in print on verso of mount: Quimby & C., Photographic Artists, Charleston, S.C.
Title devised by cataloger.
Charleston, S.C.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : print on card mount ; 11 x 7 cm (carte de visite format)
Identifier: ark:/20775/bb24659026
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Photographs
Nineteenth century
African Americans
Charleston (S.C.)
Place: Charleston (S.C.)

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