Sujet

Edmund Ruffin, between 1860 and 1875. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Edmund Rubbin i.e., Edmund Ruffin, between 1860 and 1875. [Farmer and slaveholder who was a strong supporter of the secession of his state of Virginia from the Union. He is popularly believed to have fired the first shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. He committed suicide after General Robert E Lee surrendered at Appomattox].

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A73_236

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

129,3Mo (2,6Mo) / 51,0cm x 63,5cm / 6028 x 7500 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male library job man men country guy occupation Southern hair farmer location century long hair profession B&W slavery long haired Library of Congress United States of America 19th century black & white black and white slaver B W nineteenth century American America USA slave trade photograph portrait united states Unknown Edmund Handy Edmund Ruffin Ruffin Mathew Brady Brady Congressional Library slave-owner Heritage Art Mathew B Mathew B Brady Mathew B. Mathew B. Brady slave owner enslaver 19th-century southerner still image Brady-Handy Collection Mathew Mathew Benjamin Brady Levin Handy Levin Corbin Handy Levin C Handy Levin Corbin Levin C Levin C. Handy Levin C. Portrait photographs 1860-1880. gmgpc Glass negatives 1860-1880. gmgpc L.C. L.C. Handy slaveholder Edmund Ruffin III