C.H. Gallup, Poughkeepsie, NY Photograph of a cartoon: black man using hub and two spokes of wagon wheel photographs family with dog on the beach. Boats on water; covered wagon approaches from the distance. "The amateur" (recto in negative). 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 > C.H. Gallup, Poughkeepsie, NY Photograph of a cartoon: black man using hub and two spokes of wagon wheel photographs family with dog on the beach. Boats on water; covered wagon approaches from the distance. "The amateur" (recto in negative). Cabinet photograph

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Title: C.H. Gallup, Poughkeepsie, NY Photograph of a cartoon: black man using hub and two spokes of wagon wheel photographs family with dog on the beach. Boats on water; covered wagon approaches from the distance. "The amateur" (recto in negative). Cabinet photograph
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: circa 1890
Description: "The Amateur Photographer" printed verso: A long advertisement contrasting and spoofing the art and ethnicity of "the amateur" and his subjects (recto) with the professionalism of C.H. Gallup. Signed: "Presented with compliments of C.H. Gallup ... Po'keepsie, N.Y."
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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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection
  - Series I. Visual Material
    CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS
    THIS ITEM C.H. Gallup, Poughkeepsie, NY Photograph of a cartoon: black man using hub and two spokes of wagon wheel photographs family with dog on the beach. Boats on water; covered wagon approaches from the distance. "The amateur" (recto in negative). Cabinet photograph

Container / Volume

Box 9, folder 282

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.