Unknown photographer 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 > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > AMBROTYPES > Unknown photographer 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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Title: Unknown photographer 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: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: circa 1850
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 Congregationalist, also the American Missionary."
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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    THIS ITEM Unknown photographer 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

Container / Volume

Box 3, folder 40

Access: Public
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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.