From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1850
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 40
Image Count:
4
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 t...
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 1855
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 6
Image Count:
4
Description:
Portrait of Gerrit Smith (1797-1874) prominent wealthy abolitionist, supporter of John Brown and Frederick Douglass. Earliest known portrait of subject without a beard.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1859
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 327
Image Count:
2
Description:
In pencil, verso: "Mrs. Washington; reputedly servant to Mrs. George Washington. Note: From an important Virginia photo album with Custis photographs."
