2020 Journal_018
Item
- Title
- 2020 Journal_018
- Alternative Title
- 2020 Journal
- Creator
- Karen Blessen
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The image displays an open book with rough-edged, textured pages. On the left page, there is a sepia-toned photograph of Sojourner Truth seated, wearing a long dress with a shawl and a bonnet. The photograph is affixed to the page, which has visible wear along the edges. Below the photograph is a caption: "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth."
- Dates Completed
- January 1, 2020 - January 30, 2020
- Keywords
- 2020; New decade; Chart; Road metaphor; Bricks; Mortar; Rest stops; Dangers; Human body; Mortality; Poignancy; Connections; Sadness; Grief; Aging; Australia fires; Horror of 2020; $81,000 grant; Trust for Public Land; Texas Trees Foundation; Jonathan McNulty; David McNulty; Murder; Wounds; Baby elephants; Dream; “You are unstoppable”; NYC trip; FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S WORK; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection; Grolier Club; NYC libraries; Book display; Collections; Researchers; Lisa Unger Baskin; Magical day; Well being; New York Public Library; J.D. Salinger exhibit; Made at NYPL exhibit; Wallace Shawn; Artifact display; Book binding; Women in France; Inexplicable well being; Wave not the water; Broadway; Central vein; Long leaf; Walking; Orthopedic surgeries; Morgan Library; Duane Michals; Word and Image; NYPL; Animal skin fortune; Met Breuer; Home is a Foreign Place; Jody Shields; Metropolitan Museum; Friday evening; Cafe Sabarsky; Free man in Paris; Recollection; Recognition of freedom; Responsibility; Central Park; Beacon Hotel; Room with a view; Magic; Best Small Garden award; Dallas
- Transcription
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Left page under the photograph: "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth."
Right page: "Truth, Sojourner. I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. 1864. Cabinet card albumen photograph.
By the 1860s, Sojourner Truth had moved to Battle Creek, Michigan. Between 1863 and 1875, Truth had at least fourteen different photographic portraits made. She sold them to provide income for herself. These cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards were portable and far cheaper to produce than copies of her Narrative. She controlled every aspect of the way she is depicted in these images—genteelly, in cap and shawl, often with a book, her knitting, or photograph in her lap, obscuring her disabled right hand." - Rights
- To inquire about usage, please contact Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. These images are for educational use only. Not all images are available for publication.
- Is Part Of
- 2020 Journal
- Relation
- Image Gallery