Title: Learning is Wealth—Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa, Slaves from New Orleans
Object type: Carte-de-visite
Date: 1863–64
Artist:  Charles Paxson 
Artist bio: American, active New York, 1860s
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 8.5 x 5.3 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/16 in.)
Mount: 10.1 x 6.1 cm (4 x 2 3/8 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2011
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: American Civil War, term: Boys, term: Girls, term: Reading, term: Slaves