Sojourner Truth (LOC)
Sojourner Truth
c1864.
1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm.
Notes:
Photograph shows Sojourner Truth in a three-quarter-length portrait. She is sitting at table with knitting and a book.
Title from item.
"I sell the shadow to support the substance, Sojourner Truth"--printed below photo.
Copyright 1864 by Sojourner Truth.
Gladstone's inventory notes: CDV54.
Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information see, www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/617_apptonly.html
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (PR 13 CN 1995:113)
Exhibited: African American Odyssey, Library of Congress, 1998.
Exhibited: Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, and other venues, 2006.
Subjects:
Truth, Sojourner,--1799-1883.
Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Part Of: Carte de visite photographs from the Gladstone collection (DLC) 2010645102
General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08978
Call Number: LOT 14022, no. 51