[Brett (barely legible under label pasted over), Boston (?, under label)], MA Full length portrait of Charley Frey; man in blackface, wig, checkered pants, standing beside elaborately carved chair. Cabinet photograph

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS > [Brett (barely legible under label pasted over), Boston (?, under label)], MA Full length portrait of Charley Frey; man in blackface, wig, checkered pants, standing beside elaborately carved chair. Cabinet photograph

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Title: [Brett (barely legible under label pasted over), Boston (?, under label)], MA Full length portrait of Charley Frey; man in blackface, wig, checkered pants, standing beside elaborately carved chair. Cabinet photograph
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: circa 1895
Description: Identified by label pasted on recto under photograph. Studio name obscured by label. Subject was prominent vaudevillian.
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 [Brett (barely legible under label pasted over), Boston (?, under label)], MA Full length portrait of Charley Frey; man in blackface, wig, checkered pants, standing beside elaborately carved chair. Cabinet photograph

Container / Volume

Box 9, folder 277

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.