Loading
Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait
1864
National Women’s History Museum
Alexandria, VA, United States
[Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on cane] - Caption: I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth.
- Original carte de visite portrait is in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Sojourner Truth Collection (MMC). Manuscript Division copy negative is LC-MSS-35956-173.
- Available as copy photo in Prints & Photographs Division, BIOG FILE.
- Described in: Sojourner Truth : A life, a symbol / Nell Irvin Painter. New York : W.W. Norton, 1996, p. 187.
Show lessRead more
Details
- Title: Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait
- Date Created: 1864
- Location Created: Detroit, Michigan
- Type: Portrait Photograph
- Rights: Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Sojourner Truth Collection (MMC)
- Medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.