2010.69: Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2010.69
- People
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Unidentified Artist
Sojourner Truth
- Title
- Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- carte-de-visite, photograph
- Date
- 1864, printed between 1864-66
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/274486
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Albumen silver print on card
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 9 x 5.3 cm (3 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: See Scanned Image. Two-cent Civil War stamp, cancelled.
- (not assigned): Verso, printed: Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1864 by SOJOURNER TRUTH, In the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. District Court, for the Eastern District of Mich.
- stamp: verso: Two-cent tax stamp, cancelled
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell
- Accession Year
- 2010
- Object Number
- 2010.69
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Timothy Anglin Burgard, "Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities", brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1995), checklist no. 18
- Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance, University of Chicago Press (Chicago/London, 2015), pp. 67-68, repr. p. 67, fig. 45
- Sophie Lynford, Natalia Vieyra, and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, "In Honor of Juneteenth", Index Magazine, Harvard Art Museums ([e-journal], June 19, 2020), https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/in-honor-of-juneteenth, accessed, June 29, 2020
Exhibition History
- Edmonia Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Images and Identities, Fogg Art Museum, 02/18/1995 - 05/03/1995
- A History of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016
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