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Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1880
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 393
Image Count:
2
Description:
Verso, in pencil, "Zumigo, the Egyptian."
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Eisenmann, Photographer, 229 Bowery, New York Full length portrait of Zumigo; lady in very fancy dress and huge Afro, standing next to gigantic basket prop. Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 507
Image Count:
2
Description:
Stamped verso: "No. 2," copyright inscription, inscription regarding proceeds (see previous), photographer's identification. Final inscription: "N.B. -- All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, No. 1 Mercer Street, New York." Each of the four photog...
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Paxson, New York, NY Cameo profile of Rebecca; girl facing right. Stamped recto, beneath photograph, "Rebecca. A Slave Girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 510
Image Count:
2
Description:
Stamped verso, "No. 5" Same inscriptions as 2111. Cf. Same image as D-140.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Paxson, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; child sitting on flag, hands clasped, plaintive gaze upward to right at flag. Bunting in foreground, beneath her, and along left side. Stamped recto beneath photograph: "'Oh! How I Love the Old Flag.' REBECCA, A Slave Girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 511
Image Count:
2
Description:
Stamped verso, "No. 9" Same inscriptions as 2111.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Paxson, New York, NY Full length triple portrait of Rosa, Charley, and Rebecca in name order; three children wrapped individually in bunting: Rosa-stars; Charley-stripes; Rebecca-stripes; the girls appear to kneel; boy stands. Stamped recto beneath photograph: "'Our Protection.' ROSA, CHARLEY, REBECCA. Slave children from New Orleans." Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 456
Image Count:
2
Description:
Stamped verso: "No. 4" Same inscriptions as D-139 through D-141.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Paxson, Photographer, New York, NY Bust length triple portrait of Rebecca, Charley, and Rosa; three children, well dressed, seated. In ink, recto, across photograph: "Truly Yours [signature illegible]." Stamped below photograph: Rebecca, Charley & Rosa; Slave Children from New Orleans." Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 453
Image Count:
2
Description:
Verso: "No. 5" Same inscriptions as D-139.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Paxson, Photographer, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; young girl, hair in net, seated in plaintive pose with hands clasped to bosom; all but draped in flag: foreground, beneath and to right of her. Recto, beneath photograph: "Oh! how I love the old flag. REBECCA, A slave girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 452
Image Count:
2
Description:
One of a dozen cartes de visite, used as anti-slavery propaganda, in the collection (D-139 through D-144 and 2110 to 2115). Inscriptions verso: Item "No. 5;" Copyright notice: "Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberr...
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > Chas. Paxson, Photographer, New York, NY Full length portrait of Rebecca; young girl, seated in plaintive pose with clasped hands, hair in net, checked dress; bunting from flag is at right. Recto, beneath photograph: "Oh! How I love the old flag. REBECCA, A slave girl from New Orleans." Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1850
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 40, folder 1172
Image Count:
5
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series III. Artifacts > Collection Box of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society Box with slotted, removable lid, yellow, printed in black, shellacked. Illustrated on front with engraved image of slave in chains, praying: whips, chains, shackles below. Motto in arch above between two pillars, "Remember your weekly pledge". Sides and top covered with descriptive text and passages from scripture, 3 x 2-1/4 x 1-5/8
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1898
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 17
Image Count:
2
Description:
Verso, in pencil, "To my mother, Mister A. Hamilton."
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > LATER 19TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS > Cuban American Photograph Gallery, Sto. Tomas Baja, N. I., Santiago de Cuba Portrait of A. Hamilton, cavalryman standing, wearing hat, bandanna knotted at throat, revolver in cartridge belt; with foot on rock prop. Later 19th century photograph, 3-1/4 x 3-1/2
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1870
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 334
Image Count:
2
Description:
Verso, in pencil. "Caroline De Beilem Lovett at 18 months old. + Eliza"
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > D. Hinkle, Photographer, No. 4739 Main Street, Germantown (PA) Three quarter length double portrait, Caroline De Beilem Lovett, and Eliza; black lady in polka dot dress and bandanna, seated; white female child in white lace dress with sash seated in her lap. Carte de visite
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1890
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 9, folder 181
Image Count:
2
Description:
Stamped verso: "D. Mahan, 43 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa."
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CABINET PHOTOGRAPHS > D. Mahan, Pittsburgh, PA Full length portrait, young man standing on steps, left arm on newel post, holding felt hat in right hand, prominent watch chain. Cabinet photograph
Creator:
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1865-68
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 368
Image Count:
2
Description:
Blue two-cent revenue stamp, verso.
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54) > Series I. Visual Material > CARTES DE VISITE > D. Murlless, 3 Pleasant St., Northampton, MA Cameo portrait, lady with thin white collar edging, butterfly pin, buttons. Carte de visite
