California Gold Rush and move to Cincinnati Robert James Harlan



van loo s photograph of workum family, possibly 1860s


harlan began working benefactor black people in cincinnati, becoming trustee of colored schools there , negotiating nicholas longworth, esq. building of eastern district school. speculated in cincinnati real estate , earned enough purchase bull s first class photographic , daguerreotype gallery employed number of known photographers including charles waldeck, james landy, , leon van loo. in 1851, visited world s fair in london. time, or considered himself technically owned james harlan, although wealthier slave owner , had been freed few years earlier. robert returned kentucky , paid james $500 freedom. in cincinnati, fortune continued grow, in 1859 harlan desired escape discrimination felt in america , move england race horses.








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