I sell the shadow to support the substance : Sojourner Truth, [1864]
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Summary
- Abstract:
- Albumen photographic portrait on cabinet card featuring full-length image of Sojourner Truth; facing front but turned slightly to her left; in a dark dress with light collar, cap, and shawl; holding her knitting while seated; with her left arm resting on a small table that has a decorative table cloth and holds a notebook and vase of flowers. The room has a patterned rug. There are five spatters of ink or another substance on the surface of the photograph, along with a few spatters on the mount.
- Extent:
- 1 photographs (print on card mount ; mount 17 x 11 cm.)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Collection ID:
- RL.11049
Background
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"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864 by Sojourner Truth in the clerk's office of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan."--Verso of card mount.
Albumen photographic portrait on cabinet card featuring full-length image of Sojourner Truth; facing front but turned slightly to her left; in a dark dress with light collar, cap, and shawl; holding her knitting while seated; with her left arm resting on a small table that has a decorative table cloth and holds a notebook and vase of flowers. The room has a patterned rug. There are five spatters of ink or another substance on the surface of the photograph, along with a few spatters on the mount.
- Processing information:
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Processed by: Alice L. Poffinberger, June, 2015.
Accessions described in this finding aid: 2015-0050-LUBMSS588
- Rules or conventions:
- dcrmg
Subjects
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- Subjects:
- Abolitionists -- United States -- Pictorial works
African American abolitionists -- Pictorial works
Social reformers -- United States -- Pictorial works - Format:
- Portraits
Albumen prints
Cabinet photographs
Black-and-white prints (photographs) - Names:
- Lisa Unger Baskin Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Truth, Sojourner, 1799-1883 -- Portraits
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I sell the shadow to support the substance : Sojourner Truth, [1864], David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.