TitleFannie Virginia Gasseopia [i.e. Casseopia] Lawrence
Call NumberCHUR_0093
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryPortrait of a nineteenth century girl seated, wearing dark blue (?) fancy dress holding small bouquet of flowers in left hand. Caption: "From a daguerreotype of Fannie Virginia Gasseopia [Casseopia] Lawrence, a five-year-old slave child auctioned off and freed in May, 1863, by Henry Ward Beecher from the pulpit of the Plymouth Church [of the Pilgrims, 75 Hicks Street].
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