From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1901
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 13, folder 643
Image Count:
2
Description:
Flag draped coffin being removed from elegant hearse. Pallbearers, men in uniform including sailor, foreground. Dignitaries, hats over left breast, stand nearby. Deep background, tall chimney belching smoke.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 490
Image Count:
2
Description:
Recto, in ink: "Aunt Nancy's baby and nurse. Aunt Nancy's baby was Grandfather Wilcox's sister or half-sister. The baby was left in nurse's care when parents were gone. She had picture taken -- and shut her eyes so that her picture would not be record...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1893 May 12
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 304
Image Count:
2
Description:
In ink, recto, beneath photograph: "Affectionately, Your Sister, Rosetta" Verso, ink, same hand: "To Lewis H. Douglass, May 12/93" Verso, different ink, different hand: "Rosetta Douglass Sprague (Daughter of F. Douglass + Anna Murray D.)"
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 430
Image Count:
2
Description:
Thompson (1804-1878), British, active in the agitation against slavery in the British colonies. Trips to the US to lecture on the abolition of slavery 1835, 1851, and during the Civil War. May also be seen in a Daguerreotype (#2) along with William Ll...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1875
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 165
Image Count:
2
Description:
Printed recto: "The Only Original University Singers of New Orleans." Verso: "Bogardus, Artist and Photographer, No. 349 Sixth Avenue, Bet. 21st and 22nd Sts., New York."
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 461
Image Count:
2
Description:
Verso, in pencil: "Fannie V.C. Lawrence Ayres (white slave orphan - Virginia, Civil War) Stored in: "Life + Labors of Miss Catharine S. Lawrence" Albany, NY 1896, James B. Lyon, Printer.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1860
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 425
Image Count:
2
Description:
In ink, recto, at base of photo: "Sincerely yours, Anna E. Dickinson." Noted 19th century orator and lecturer: anti-slavery, womens rights, civil rights of former slaves.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1875
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 279
Image Count:
2
Description:
Collector's note in pencil, verso: "Henry Bibb, Editor 'Voice of the Fugitive,' newspaper in Detroit. Helped slaves escape to Canada; writes own narrative, 1849-"
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1890
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 282
Image Count:
2
Description:
"The Amateur Photographer" printed verso: A long advertisement contrasting and spoofing the art and ethnicity of "the amateur" and his subjects (recto) with the professionalism of C.H. Gallup. Signed: "Presented with compliments of C.H. Gallup ... Po'...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1850
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 13
Image Count:
4
Description:
C.J. Goodridge and family were not only prominent black photographers from York, but their studio and home were stations used on the underground railroad.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1870
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 428
Image Count:
2
Description:
Verso, in pencil: "Dan Bryant." Prominent 19th century minstrel, noted for caricatures of plantation blacks. Along with brothers Jerry and Neil performed as Bryant's Minstrels.
