Unknown Photographer Three quarter length portrait of Sojourner Truth; elderly woman wearing dress with shawl, bonnet, and glasses, seated beside small table with knitting, book, vase of flowers. Stamped recto beneath photograph, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. SOJOURNER TRUTH." 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 > Unknown Photographer Three quarter length portrait of Sojourner Truth; elderly woman wearing dress with shawl, bonnet, and glasses, seated beside small table with knitting, book, vase of flowers. Stamped recto beneath photograph, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. SOJOURNER TRUTH." Carte de visite

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Title: Unknown Photographer Three quarter length portrait of Sojourner Truth; elderly woman wearing dress with shawl, bonnet, and glasses, seated beside small table with knitting, book, vase of flowers. Stamped recto beneath photograph, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. SOJOURNER TRUTH." Carte de visite
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: 1864
Description: Copyright notice, Eastern District of Michigan, stamped verso.
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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- Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection
  - Series I. Visual Material
    CARTES DE VISITE
    THIS ITEM Unknown Photographer Three quarter length portrait of Sojourner Truth; elderly woman wearing dress with shawl, bonnet, and glasses, seated beside small table with knitting, book, vase of flowers. Stamped recto beneath photograph, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. SOJOURNER TRUTH." Carte de visite

Container / Volume

Box 11, folder 515

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.