Sixth-plate ambrotype of black woman holding white baby; image credit on full record.
Sixth-plate ambrotype of black woman with white child, showing interior of case; image credit on full record.
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Ambrotype Photograph; 1/6 Plate, Portrait, African-American Woman with White Child.
Ambrotype [photograph] of a black [African-American] "mammy" [nurse] with white infant [baby/child], circa 1860. One-sixth plate in a gutta-percha cas... [more detail available via subscription]