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Alice Liddell: Rare photographs of the real Alice in Wonderland
Alice Liddell was the middle daughter of Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church at Oxford. Alice, along with her sisters Edith and Lorina, first met Lewis Carroll on April 25, 1856, as he and a friend were setting up to photograph Christ Church Cathedral from the garden of the Dean?s residence.
Over the next few years, Carroll would become a close friend of the Liddell family. Alice and her sisters were frequent models for Carroll?s photography, and he often took the children on outings.
On July 4th, 1862, Carroll and the Rev. Robinson Duckworth took the girls boating up the Isis. Alice later recalled that as the company took tea on a shaded bank, she implored Carroll to ?tell us a story.?
According to Carroll, ?in a desperate attempt? and ?without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,? he sent his heroine ?straight down a rabbit-hole.? Upon Alice?s urging, Carroll began writing down his tale. On November 26, 1864, he presented her with an elaborate hand-illustrated manuscript, titled Alice?s Adventures Under Ground.
Alice Liddell was the middle daughter of Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church at Oxford. Alice, along with her sisters Edith and Lorina, first met Lewis Carroll on April 25, 1856, as he and a friend were setting up to photograph Christ Church Cathedral from the garden of the Dean?s residence.
Over the next few years, Carroll would become a close friend of the Liddell family. Alice and her sisters were frequent models for Carroll?s photography, and he often took the children on outings.
On July 4th, 1862, Carroll and the Rev. Robinson Duckworth took the girls boating up the Isis. Alice later recalled that as the company took tea on a shaded bank, she implored Carroll to ?tell us a story.?
According to Carroll, ?in a desperate attempt? and ?without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,? he sent his heroine ?straight down a rabbit-hole.? Upon Alice?s urging, Carroll began writing down his tale. On November 26, 1864, he presented her with an elaborate hand-illustrated manuscript, titled Alice?s Adventures Under Ground.
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Scars of Gordon, a whipped Louisiana slave, 1863
The famous ?whipped slave? photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his severely whipped back to the camera of two itinerant photographers, William D. McPherson and his partner, Mr. Oliver.
Gordon had received a severe whipping for undisclosed reasons in the fall of 1862. This beating left him with horrible welts on much of the surface of his back.
The unusual, but common, way these scars grew outward from the skin is a certain type of scar tissue called ?keloid?. It is caused by an excessive protein called collagen within the healing tissue and raises the tissue. People of color are more likely to develop keloid scars.
Gordon escaped in March 1863 from the 3,000-acre (12 km2) plantation of John and Bridget Lyons, who held him and nearly 40 other people in slavery at the time of the 1860 census.
Upon learning of his flight, his master recruited several neighbors and together they chased after him with a pack of bloodhounds. Gordon had anticipated that he would be pursued and carried with him onions from the plantation, which he rubbed on his body to throw the dogs off-scent.
Such resourcefulness worked, and Gordon ? his clothes torn and his body covered with mud and dirt ? reached the safety of Union soldiers stationed at Baton Rouge ten days later. He had traveled approximately eighty miles.
Pherson and his partner Mr. Oliver, who were in camp at the time, produced carte de visite photos of Gordon showing his back. During the examination, Gordon is quoted as saying: ?Ten days from to-day I left the plantation.
Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. My master was not present. I don?t remember the whipping. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping and my sense began to come?I was sort of crazy. I tried to shoot everybody.
They said so, I did not know. I did not know that I had attempted to shoot everyone; they told me so. I burned up all my clothes; but I don?t remember that. I never was this way (crazy) before. I don?t know what make me come that way (crazy). My master come after I was whipped; saw me in bed; he discharged the overseer.
They told me I attempted to shoot my wife the first one; I did not shoot any one; I did not harm any one. My master?s Capt. JOHN LYON, cotton planter, on Atchafalya, near Washington, Louisiana. Whipped two months before Christmas.
The famous ?whipped slave? photograph pictures the runaway slave Gordon exposing his severely whipped back to the camera of two itinerant photographers, William D. McPherson and his partner, Mr. Oliver.
Gordon had received a severe whipping for undisclosed reasons in the fall of 1862. This beating left him with horrible welts on much of the surface of his back.
The unusual, but common, way these scars grew outward from the skin is a certain type of scar tissue called ?keloid?. It is caused by an excessive protein called collagen within the healing tissue and raises the tissue. People of color are more likely to develop keloid scars.
Gordon escaped in March 1863 from the 3,000-acre (12 km2) plantation of John and Bridget Lyons, who held him and nearly 40 other people in slavery at the time of the 1860 census.
Upon learning of his flight, his master recruited several neighbors and together they chased after him with a pack of bloodhounds. Gordon had anticipated that he would be pursued and carried with him onions from the plantation, which he rubbed on his body to throw the dogs off-scent.
Such resourcefulness worked, and Gordon ? his clothes torn and his body covered with mud and dirt ? reached the safety of Union soldiers stationed at Baton Rouge ten days later. He had traveled approximately eighty miles.
Pherson and his partner Mr. Oliver, who were in camp at the time, produced carte de visite photos of Gordon showing his back. During the examination, Gordon is quoted as saying: ?Ten days from to-day I left the plantation.
Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. My master was not present. I don?t remember the whipping. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping and my sense began to come?I was sort of crazy. I tried to shoot everybody.
They said so, I did not know. I did not know that I had attempted to shoot everyone; they told me so. I burned up all my clothes; but I don?t remember that. I never was this way (crazy) before. I don?t know what make me come that way (crazy). My master come after I was whipped; saw me in bed; he discharged the overseer.
They told me I attempted to shoot my wife the first one; I did not shoot any one; I did not harm any one. My master?s Capt. JOHN LYON, cotton planter, on Atchafalya, near Washington, Louisiana. Whipped two months before Christmas.
