From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1862
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 12, folder 550
Image Count:
2
Description:
Exterior view: a dozen men in officers' uniform seated and standing in semicircle. Small black boy seated on ground in front. Overturned keg at left; cup on top. In ink, verso, "Presented to Chas Chipman Post No 132 Grand Army of the Republic by Comra...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1865
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 358
Image Count:
3
Description:
Photograph is of Horace Loudon and Daniel S. Lathrop of the Twenty-Ninth Connecticut Infantry. Loudon was previously misidentified as Alexander Herritage Newton.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1865
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 405
Image Count:
2
Description:
Thomas Greene Bethune was a well-known blind prodigy of the pianoforte. His former master, Colonel Bethune, became his concert manager. He played before Queen Victoria, President Lincoln, and President Jefferson Davis. In pencil, verso, "Blind Tom."
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1865
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 406
Image Count:
2
Description:
Thomas Greene Bethune was a well-known blind prodigy of the pianoforte. His former master, Colonel Bethune, became his concert manager. He played before Queen Victoria, President Lincoln, and President Jefferson Davis. Identical to D-92, except that t...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1863
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 407
Image Count:
2
Description:
Blue two cent revenue stamp verso.
The woman in the photograph was previously identified as Sojourner Truth and in the opinion of R.L. Simpson this may well be the first published photograph of Sojourner Truth. At the time the photograph was taken, ...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1942
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 25
Image Count:
2
Description:
Description verso, "Elijah Green. One of the few ex-slaves living 1941. Said to have been born 1838. Sits in front of Old Slave Mart. 6 Chalmers St. Charleston, S.C.
