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Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim Lawson was born in Ward County, Maryland, the slave of Mr. Ogle Tayloe. He was taken to Alabama twenty years before the war and placed upon the Windsor Plantation, where he still lives and works for Judge William H. Tayloe. He is ninety-four years old.

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Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others; character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after

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Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim Lawson was born in Ward County, Maryland, the slave of Mr. Ogle Tayloe. He was taken to Alabama twenty years before the war and placed upon the Windsor Plantation, where he still lives and works for Judge William H. Tayloe. He is ninety-four years old.

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Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim Lawson was born in Ward County, Maryland, the slave of Mr. Ogle Tayloe. He was taken to Alabama twenty years before the war and placed upon the Windsor Plantation, where he still lives and works for Judge William H. Tayloe. He is ninety-four years old.
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Aunt Phebe, Uncle Tom and others; character studies among the old slaves of the South, fifty years after

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1915
Place: Columbus, Ohio
Publisher: The Champlin Press
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc 326. 973-M
Topics
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions
Plantation life
Southern States -- Social life and customs
Enslaved persons
African American men
Men -- Clothing & dress
Genres
Photographs
Illustrations
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR2105767-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22096049
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4f8c7630-c6da-012f-f1cc-58d385a7bc34
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  • 1915: Issued
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim Lawson was born in Ward County, Maryland, the slave of Mr. Ogle Tayloe. He was taken to Alabama twenty years before the war and placed upon the Windsor Plantation, where he still lives and works for Judge William H. Tayloe. He is ninety-four years old." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-b128-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim Lawson was born in Ward County, Maryland, the slave of Mr. Ogle Tayloe. He was taken to Alabama twenty years before the war and placed upon the Windsor Plantation, where he still lives and works for Judge William H. Tayloe. He is ninety-four years old." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 26, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-b128-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1915). Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim Lawson was born in Ward County, Maryland, the slave of Mr. Ogle Tayloe. He was taken to Alabama twenty years before the war and placed upon the Windsor Plantation, where he still lives and works for Judge William H. Tayloe. He is ninety-four years old. Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-b128-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim Lawson was born in Ward County, Maryland, the slave of Mr. Ogle Tayloe. He was taken to Alabama twenty years before the war and placed upon the Windsor Plantation, where he still lives and works for Judge William H. Tayloe. He is ninety-four years old.