Ross & Thomson, Photographers to the Queen, Edinburgh Black man seated on very low stool; child stands, straddling his right leg, facing him; showing him small object in her right hand. Small basket in foreground. Carte de visite

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Ross & Thomson, Photographers to the Queen, Edinburgh Black man seated on very low stool; child stands, straddling his right leg, facing him; showing him small object in her right hand. Small basket in foreground. Carte de visite

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Title: Ross & Thomson, Photographers to the Queen, Edinburgh Black man seated on very low stool; child stands, straddling his right leg, facing him; showing him small object in her right hand. Small basket in foreground. Carte de visite
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: circa 1864
Description: Thought to be Ira Frederick Aldridge [1807-1867], actor, in unpublished photograph with one of his daughters.
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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Container / Volume

Box 11, folder 482

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.