still image Graphic Albumen prints -- 1860-1870 Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870 Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870 miu Michigan PA. Philadelphia Sojourner Truth 1864 1864 monographic eng

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1 photograph: albumen on card mount; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte-de-visite format) Three-quarter length portrait of the African American itinerant preacher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate born into slavery and originally known as Isabella Baumfree. Shows Truth, seated, and attired in a dark-colored, long sleeved dress with white collar, white shawl with fringe, and a white cap. She wears wire-rimmed glasses and faces front and is turned slightly to her left. She holds knitting in her left hand which rests on a small table that has a decorative table cloth. A notebook and vase of flowers adorn the table. A string of yarn runs across her lap. Truth escaped to freedom in 1826. During the period of the Civil War, Truth captioned, marketed, placed under copyright, and sold at least eleven different carte-de-visite portraits of herself at her lectures and through the mail to earn personal funds and advocate for the abolition of slavery. Her knitting probably alludes to her promotion of the handcraft as an industry for advancement for former enslaved persons. Title from item. Publication information from copyright statement on verso: Entered according to 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. Truth, Sojourner -1883 Portraits African American women abolitionists African American women civil rights workers African American women evangelists Free African Americans Knitting Women's rights P.2017.27 Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Truth [P.2017.27] aacr dcrmg ppl 000626 20250528091217.0 302907 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.6 using a version of MARC21slim2MODS3-6.xsl (Revision 1.116 2016/3/15) modified by the Library Company of Philadelphia (modified 2023-10-02)