Unknown photographer, Baltimore[?] Rufus G. Cartwright, Son of Sally Cartwright Williams (1822-18??), portrait of a man playing fiddle. Daguerreotype, sixth plate

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > DAGUERREOTYPES > Unknown photographer, Baltimore[?] Rufus G. Cartwright, Son of Sally Cartwright Williams (1822-18??), portrait of a man playing fiddle. Daguerreotype, sixth plate

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Title: Unknown photographer, Baltimore[?] Rufus G. Cartwright, Son of Sally Cartwright Williams (1822-18??), portrait of a man playing fiddle. Daguerreotype, sixth plate
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: circa 1855
Description: Traveled as musician with medicine show. Played fiddle and piano forte.
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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    THIS ITEM Unknown photographer, Baltimore[?] Rufus G. Cartwright, Son of Sally Cartwright Williams (1822-18??), portrait of a man playing fiddle. Daguerreotype, sixth plate

Container / Volume

Box 1, folder 5

Access: Public
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Citation: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.