Half length formal portrait of "Uncle Moreau" [Omar ibn Said]; elderly man seated wearing headwrap, suit; left elbow rests on newel, cane in right hand. Ambrotype

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Half length formal portrait of "Uncle Moreau" [Omar ibn Said]; elderly man seated wearing headwrap, suit; left elbow rests on newel, cane in right hand. Ambrotype

2002060

Description

Title: Half length formal portrait of "Uncle Moreau" [Omar ibn Said]; elderly man seated wearing headwrap, suit; left elbow rests on newel, cane in right hand. Ambrotype
Creator: Unknown photographer
Published / Created: circa 1850
Abstract: Half length formal portrait of an elderly black man seated wearing headwrap, suit; left elbow rests on newel, cane in right hand.
Description: Subject identified in pencil on paper mounted underneath ambrotype inside back of case, "'Uncle Moreau' a slave of great notoriety, of North Carolina, a scholar who once wrote me a letter in Arabic & sent me his picture, a sketch of his life. Was in the C
Extent: 1 photograph
ambrotype
in case

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: JWJ MSS 54
Collection Title: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection
Collection/Other Creator: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Collection Date: 1728-1991 (Bulk: 1850-1970)
Collection Note: Series I. Visual Material. AMBROTYPES
Container / Volume: Box 3 | Folder 40

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: still image
Genre: Ambrotypes
Photographs
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 4465927
Object ID (OID): 2002060