Sojourner Truth,knitting,African-American abolitionist,women's activist,c1864

Title: Sojourner Truth
Other Title: I sell the shadow to support the substance
Date Created/Published: c1864.
Summary: Photograph shows Sojourner Truth in a three-quarter-length portrait. She is sitting at table with knitting and a book.
Notes:
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.
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (PR 13 CN 1995:113)
General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld
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,--d. 1883.
Albumen prints--1860-1870.
Cartes de visite--1860-1870.
Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /98501244/
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