DeGrasse-Howard photographs, ca. 1861-1976.

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DeGrasse-Howard photographs, ca. 1861-1976.

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Photographs of several related African-American families, the Asbury, DeGrasse, Downing, and Howard families. Most of the photographs are portraits that depict Boston physician John Van Surley DeGrasse, who served in the Civil War as a medical doctor in the 35th Regiment of the North Carolina Colored Infantry; his wife Cordelia L. Howard DeGrasse and their daughter Georginia Cordelia DeGrasse Asbury; and descendant Rev. Howard DeGrasse Asbury, among others. There is also a photograph of a portrait painting of Rev. Isaiah George Howard, as well as a carte de visite of Frederick Douglass that includes his autograph. The collection also contains views of memorial tablets to Isaiah George Howard in St. Philip's Episcopal Church in New York, N.Y. and to abolitionist George T. Downing in Touro Park, Newport, R.I. Photographers include James Wallace Black and John A. Heard of Boston, Mass., as well as John White Hurn of Philadelphia, Pa., among others. Includes cartes de visite and color photographs.

17 photographs in 1 narrow box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7809970

Massachusetts Historical Society

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United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 35th (1864-1866)

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Organized at Newbern, NC, June 30, 1863 as the lst Regiment North Carolina Volunteers. Changed to the 35th Regiment United States Colored Troops on February 8, 1864. From the description of Muster rolls, 1865, Oct. 31-Dec. 31. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 22767981 ...

De Grasse, John V., 1826-1868

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John van Salee de Grasse (sometimes written as DeGrasse) was born in 1826 in New York City. He had a sister, Serena, and older brother Isaac. Their mother was Maria Van Salee of New York, a free woman of color. (Her surname was sometimes recorded as Van Surly.) They were descendants through their mother's family of Jan Janszoon of Haarlem, Netherlands, and Margarita, a Moorish woman. That couple had four sons, who were mixed-race: two, Abraham Janszoon van Salee, and his brother Anthony, the bet...

Howard, Isaiah George, 1813-1841

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Asbury, Howard DeGrasse

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DeGrasse family

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Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1818. He barely knew his mother, who lived on a different plantation and died when he was a young child and never discovered the identity of his father. When he turned eight years old, his slaveowner hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore. At an early age, Frederick realized there was a connection between literacy and freedom. Not allowed to attend school, he taught himself to read and wr...

Heard, John A.,

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DeGrasse, Cordelia Howard, b. 1823

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Asbury, Georginia Cordelia DeGrasse, b. 1855

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Howard family

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Downing family

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Asbury family

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Hurn, J. W. (John White), -1887

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Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896

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Illustrator; Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of F.O.C. Darley [graphic] / J.W. Black. [ca. 1870] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220203675 ...