Unidentified photographer / artist
1864, 20 May (letter), , 11 June (publication)
The photographist from Beaufort

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Published as "A letter from Gaynor Heacock, one of the teachers at Port Royal, to a friend in this city" 20th May, 1864 in "Friends' Intelligencer" (Philadelphia), Vol. 21, No.14, 11 June, 1864, p.219.
 
The photographist from Beaufort has just been taking some views of our house, the people's houses, and the grove near us; we have our foreman. Sharper Snipe, and one of the women who works in the field, in the house view; we have had much pleasure showing the pictures to the children and hearing their exclamations about, how Uncle Sharper and Aunt Sue stand; we showed it to Sharper and he remarked, "why there is the very old nigger" We were very anxious to have Maum Phebe, our old cook, taken, but she wouldn't listen to it; she said "she would rather go clean to the North than have her picture taken." She is superstitious, thinking she will soon die after having her likeness.
 
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