Emma, General Banks nurse
date: label: Date made
content: 1860's-1870's
label: date made
content: 1860s-1870s
name: label: maker
content: George K. Warren
notes: label: Description
content: Emma, General Banks' Nurse; Portrait of seated African-American woman; Studio and location (front, tiny black print) Studio: Warren; Lowell (front only) Cond: Fair; worn, emulsion chipped (top edge right), slightly soiled.
label: Description
content: Emma Jennings, who was born enslaved in DC and was manumitted and then employed by Massachusetts abolitionist Congressman (and later Union General) Nathaniel Banks. She is quite famous as his nanny who raised Banks' daughter, actress and suffragette Maude Banks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1995.0231.045
label: catalog number
content: 1995.0231.045
label: accession number
content: 1995.0231
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Carte-de-Visite
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.3 cm x 6.2 cm; 4 1/16 in x 2 7/16 in