Van Doorn, Photographic Artist, No. 241 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY Full length portrait of Sojourner Truth: elderly lady seated in silk polka dot dress, white shawl and bandanna; left arm on table; drapery to right. Carte de visite

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Van Doorn, Photographic Artist, No. 241 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY Full length portrait of Sojourner Truth: elderly lady seated in silk polka dot dress, white shawl and bandanna; left arm on table; drapery to right. Carte de visite

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Title: Van Doorn, Photographic Artist, No. 241 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY Full length portrait of Sojourner Truth: elderly lady seated in silk polka dot dress, white shawl and bandanna; left arm on table; drapery to right. Carte de visite
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: 1863
Description: Blue two cent revenue stamp verso. In the opinion of R.L. Simpson this may well be the first published photograph of Sojourner Truth. At the time the photograph was taken, she was living on Long Island with a Quaker family. This image predates the photographs titled: "I sell the shadow to support the substance" which she took with her and sold during her evangelistic "sojourns" throughout the country.
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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Container / Volume

Box 11, folder 407

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.