Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
Mammy Nellie |
Catalog Number |
FIC2009.03274 |
Description |
Mrs. Hayes’s Mammy [mammy Nellie] containing a b/w photo of a woman |
Owner Regiment |
Regiment unknown |
Provenance |
"Mrs. Hayes’s Mammy." (inscription at bottom) Possibly the mammy for Joel Addison Hayes' wife (Margaret Howell Davis Hayes) or mother (name unknown). The phrase "Mammy Nellie" was used for Ellen McGinnis Barnes, so this may be her. |
People |
Nellie (1) Hayes, Mrs. Barnes, Ellen [Mrs. Charles] McGinnis, Ellen Barnes (Nannie Nelly) [Mrs. Charles] [Mrs. Frederick] Nannie Nelly Davis, Varina Banks Howell [Mrs. Jefferson] (tentative) Howell, Varina Banks (tentative) Hayes, Margaret Howell Davis [Mrs. Joel Addison] (tentative) |
Search Terms |
Mammies former slaves (tentative) flight and capture of Jefferson Davis, 1865 |
Subjects |
African Americans slaves slavery women civilians Free African Americans (tentative) |