Title: Gordon, A Runaway Mississippi Slave,  or "The Scourged Back"
Object type: Carte-de-visite
Date: April 2, 1863
Artist:  McPherson & Oliver 
Artist bio: American, active New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1860s
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 3 1/2 × 2 3/16 in. (8.9 × 5.6 cm)
Sheet: 3 1/2 × 2 3/16 in. (8.9 × 5.6 cm)
Mount: 4 1/16 in. × 2 1/2 in. (10.3 × 6.3 cm)
Frame (approx): 14 x 11 in.
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: American Civil War