Collection Title: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) / Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Creator:: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:: circa 1885
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:: Box 9, folder 174
Image Count:: 2
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS > [?] Gallery, Sioux Falls, (SD) Full length group portrait of three: one seated, two standing; at least two are children. Cabinet photograph

Creator:: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:: circa 1862
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:: Box 12, folder 549
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Mounted verso: "Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 519. Fugitive Negroes Crossing Rappahonnock During Pope's Retreat."
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > STEREOGRAPHS > [Alexander] Gardner's Gallery, Washington, D.C. Men on horseback and wagons loaded with goods crossing river. Railroad trestle in background. Stereograph, yellow card

Creator:: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:: circa 1862
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:: Box 12, folder 550
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Exterior view: a dozen men in officers' uniform seated and standing in semicircle. Small black boy seated on ground in front. Overturned keg at left; cup on top. In ink, verso, "Presented to Chas Chipman Post No 132 Grand Army of the Republic by Comrade J.F. Cunningham." In pencil, "Private Abram Wicks."
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > STEREOGRAPHS > [Alexander] Gardner's Gallery, Washington, D.C. Mounted verso, "Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 382. Gen'ls Barry, Slocum, Newton, Franklin, and Friends, May 14, 1862." Stereograph, yellow card

Creator:: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:: circa 1895
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:: Box 9, folder 277
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Identified by label pasted on recto under photograph. Studio name obscured by label. Subject was prominent vaudevillian.
Found in:: 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

Creator:: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:: circa 1917
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:: Box 22, folder 955
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Typed and attached verso, "Typical School for Colored American Doughboys Primary class for colored soldiers. ...."
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS > [Signal Corps Photo?] World War I black troopers, 35th Division, seated at desks in barracks classroom in France. Instructor at board 20th century photograph, 6-1/4 x 8-1/2

Creator:: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:: 1898
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:: Box 9, folder 275
Image Count:: 2
Description:: Lower left corner missing.
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS > [Studio name missing] 151 N. 9th Street, Lebanon, PA [Camp] Alger, VA. Outdoor scene of photographer at work; all white men except one small black boy, center. Cabinet photograph

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