From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1862
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 16, folder 754
Image Count:
2
Description:
Verso, in pencil, "Sitting in left chair is Capt. John W. Clark Capt. of the 6th Vermont regiment. Photograph taken at Hagerstown, Md. 1862 at the time of the Civil War."
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:
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:
1863
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 411
Image Count:
2
Description:
In pencil, verso: "Capt. C.B. Compton." Capt. Compton, 11 Regt. Iowa Inf.; white Civil War officer. Appointed Major, 47th U.S.C.T. (Colored Troops) May, 1863; Appointed Lieut. Colonel, 53rd U.S.C.T., December 9, 1864. Identity based on research. From ...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1863
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 459
Image Count:
2
Description:
Stamped recto, beneath photograph: "Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence. A redeemed Slave Child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence, baptized in Brooklyn at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863. Entered according...
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1863
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 506
Image Count:
2
Description:
Inscription verso: "The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj.-Gen. Banks." Cf. same image as D-144.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1863
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 12, folder 558
Image Count:
2
Description:
Large group of men in formation in dress uniform. Large L-shaped building at left. Identified by collector from research. Ex. Collection Lloyd Ostendorf, Dayton, Ohio. An unpublished print.
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 414
Image Count:
2
Description:
In ink, verso: "Rufus Irving Merrill, 3rd U.S. Infrantry Corps d'Afrique." In pencil: "Co. C 75th U.S.C.T., born Concord; Age 47; res. Concord, must. 30 April '64; Must. as 1st Lieut 27 Oct 64; resigned 19 May 89, Lawrence, Mass."
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
circa 1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 420
Image Count:
2
Description:
On printed label pasted verso: "Live Oak Avenue and Negro Quarters, Drayton's House, Hilton Head, S.C.; Photographed and for sale by H.P. Moore, Concord, NH."
From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created:
1864
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 54
Container / Volume:
Box 11, folder 442
Image Count:
2
Description:
In print, recto: "Th[omas] Nast" Stamped below image: "The Colored Volunteer." Inscription verso blurred. In part: "This card represents the type of ... popular in Paris and London at present ... to introduce to the New York City Trade...." Subject wa...
