Jack Garrison

Artist Horton 1856 - 1876

DateMid 1800s

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Photographs
Photograph
Cardboard
Boston

Dimensions10.4 × 5.8 cm (4 1/8 × 2 5/16 in.)

MarkingsIn ink at bottom, "Garrison." Story (recorded in provenance below) written in blue ink on back of card as follows: "Photograph Jack Garrison / given by / Mrs. Olive Brooks Banks, 1913 / Jack Garrison was an / escaped slave who came to / Concord and worked for / Mr. Brooks, the father of / Mrs. Banks. Once when / the brother of Mrs. Brooks / came from the south to / visit, Jack Garrison / fearing that it would be found / out that he was a s slave / left Mr. Brooks and / didn't come back till / the sonthern visitor / had gone." Maker's mark printed on the verso reads: "Horton" below a heraldic device with a shield and stag head.

Credit LineJack Garrison, Horton, Boston, MA, mid-19th century. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of Mrs. Olive Brooks Banks; Pi1120a.

Object numberPI1120A

DescriptionA sepia tone photograph on cardstock, carte-de-visite size featuring a 1/2 length portrait of a man identified as Jack Garrison. The man wears a dark colored jacked and glasses and holds a cane in his proper left hand. An inscription in ink along the lower edge, below the image reads: "Garrison". In ink at bottom, "Garrison." Story (recorded in provenance below) written in blue ink on back of card as follows: "Photograph Jack Garrison / given by / Mrs. Olive Brooks Banks, 1913 / Jack Garrison was an / escaped slave who came to / Concord and worked for / Mr. Brooks, the father of / Mrs. Banks. Once when / the brother of Mrs. Brooks / came from the south to / visit, Jack Garrison / fearing that it would be found / out that he was a s slave / left Mr. Brooks and / didn't come back till / the sonthern visitor / had gone." __Maker's mark printed on the verso reads: "Horton" below a heraldic device with a shield and stag head.

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