Cabinet card of Sojourner Truth
Object Details
- Date
- 1864
- Created by
- Sojourner Truth, American, 1797 - 1883
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Sojourner Truth, American, 1797 - 1883
- Description
- Cabinet card depicting Sojourner Truth seated, wearing a dark dress and a white shawl and cap. Her right arm is folded at the waist, her left arm is resting on a small table. She holds knitting in her left hand. On the table are a book and a vase of flowers. Beneath her image is a printed caption that reads "I sell the shadow to support the substance/ Sojourner Truth." On the back in the center is a block of printed text that reads "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 Michigan."
- Place purchased
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic
- African American
- Antislavery
- Identity
- Justice
- Slavery
- Social reform
- U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
- Women
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- Abolitionist movement
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2013.207.1
- Type
- cabinet photographs
- albumen prints
- portraits
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Medium
- albumen and silver on photographic paper on cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 5 1/2 x 4 in. (14 x 10.2 cm)
- H x W (card): 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 cm)
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2013.207.1