Slave Auction tableau at John Brown Wax Museum

Photograph

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

"Slave Auction" tableau at John Brown Wax Museum

Entry/Object ID

IMG2024.019.003

Description

Black and white photograph of the "Slave Auction" tableau at the John Brown Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry. Image shows mannequins behind a railing on the first floor of the Wax Museum representing a slave auction, with a white man exhibiting an enslaved Black man on a platform as three other white men look on. Mannequins of an African American man and a woman holding a child are seated near the ground.

Photograph Details

Subject Person or Organization

John Brown Wax Museum

Acquisition

Accession

2024.019

Source or Donor

John Brown Wax Museum

Acquisition Method

Gift

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Blizzard, William C.

Role

Photographer

Date made

circa 1960 - circa 1970