Ambrotype collection, circa 1852-1880 [graphic].

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Ambrotype collection, circa 1852-1880 [graphic].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42910858

The Ambrotype Collection contains 22 images taken of individuals seated or standing for portraits, circa 1852-1880. Individuals appearing in the images have been identified whenever possible. Known individuals are listed as subject access points, as are identified locations. All of the images are encased. Included are an image of North Carolina Black Muslim slave Omar Ibn Said; members of the Marford, and Myers families; a slave owned by the Marford family; Harris and Umstead family members; students at Wesleyan Female Institute in Murfreesboro, N.C., from the 1850s; and Civil War-era images of General Bryan Grimes of the 4th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, members of the "Iredell Blues," and Meshack F. Hunt of the 5th North Carolina Infantry Regiment.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7484001

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Harris family.

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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 4th

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Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863 or 1864

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Marford family.

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Wesleyan Female College (Murfreesboro, N.C.)

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Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 5th

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Myers family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hf721w (family)

Umstead family.

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Grimes, Bryan, 1828-1880

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67663tb (person)

Bryan Grimes (1828-1880), the son of Bryan Grimes Sr. and Nancy Grist, was a Confederate General and an enslaver who owned a cotton plantation. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1848, and the following year, his father gave him the family plantation Grimesland in Pitt County, N.C., along with approximately 100 enslaved persons. Bryan Grimes lived the life of plantation owner until the eve of the Civil War in 1861. He then attended North Carolina's state convention and took a ...

Hunt.

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