Sojourner Truth Portrait
c. 1864
National Women’s History Museum
Alexandria, VA, United States
Sojourner Truth: I sell the shadow to support the substance. Photograph shows Sojourner Truth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. - Copyright 1864 by Sojourner Truth.
- 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.
- Exhibited: Gay Icons, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2009.
- Title: Sojourner Truth Portrait
- Date Created: c. 1864
- Physical Dimensions: 10 x 6 cm
- Type: Portrait Photograph
- Rights: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
- Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount
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