Magic lantern slide-painting of "Topsy:" black woman with colorful dress and headdress; eyes roll in sockets when under-glass is shifted, artifact, 4 x 7

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series III. Artifacts > Magic lantern slide-painting of "Topsy:" black woman with colorful dress and headdress; eyes roll in sockets when under-glass is shifted, artifact, 4 x 7

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Description

Title: Magic lantern slide-painting of "Topsy:" black woman with colorful dress and headdress; eyes roll in sockets when under-glass is shifted, artifact, 4 x 7
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: 1888
Description: Marked on end: "50 Topsy .88"
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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    THIS ITEM Magic lantern slide-painting of "Topsy:" black woman with colorful dress and headdress; eyes roll in sockets when under-glass is shifted, artifact, 4 x 7

Container / Volume

Box 42, folder 1192

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.