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Unknown Maker, American

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

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

American

Title

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, Sojourner Truth

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Albumen silver carte de visite

Techniques

  • 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

  • Photographs

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

2020.13

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, Sojourner Truth

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.

Exhibition History

Defying the Shadow

December 1, 2020 - December 18, 2021
The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance, Sojourner Truth with the accession number of 2020.13. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.
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