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American

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, Sojourner Truth, 1864

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

American

Title

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, Sojourner Truth

Year

1864

Medium

Albumen silver carte de visite

Dimensions

10 x 7.2 cm (3 15/16 x 2 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Printed on front of card: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance/Sojourner Truth.
Printed on verso in center: Entered according to act of Congress in/the year 1864. SOJOURNER TRUTH./in the Clerk's Office of the U S. District /Court, for the Eastern District of Mich.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2020.13

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow

December 1, 2020 - December 18, 2021

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, Sojourner Truth with the accession number of 2020.13. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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