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  • Summary: Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively inexpensive collectibles that quickly became a new mode of mass communication. Despite being illiterate, Truth copyrighted her photographs in her name and added the caption “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth.” Featuring the largest collection of Truth’s photographs ever published, Enduring Truths is the first book to explore how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby establishes a range of important contexts for Truth’s portraits, including the strategic role of photography and copyright for an illiterate former slave; the shared politics of Truth’s cartes de visite and federal banknotes, which were both created to fund the Union cause; and the ways that photochemical limitations complicated the portrayal of different skin tones. Insightful and powerful, Enduring Truths shows how Truth made her photographic portrait worth money in order to end slavery—and also became the strategic author of her public self.
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    Enduring truths : Sojourner's shadows and substance

    Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo
    Summary: Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively inexpensive collectibles that quickly became a new mode of mass communication. Despite being illiterate, Truth copyrighted her photographs in her name and added the caption “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.
    Date Issued or Published
    2015
    Copyright
    IN COPYRIGHT
    Summary: Runaway slave Sojourner Truth gained fame in the nineteenth century as an abolitionist, feminist, and orator and earned a living partly by selling photographic carte de visite portraits of herself at lectures and by mail. Cartes de visite, similar in format to calling cards, were relatively inexpensive collectibles that quickly became a new mode of mass communication. Despite being illiterate, Truth copyrighted her photographs in her name and added the caption “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.
  • Summary: Translation, with additions, of Platina's Vitae pontificum.
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    Historia delle vite de sommi pontefici : dal Salvator Nostro sino a Gregorio XV

    Platina, 1421-1481
    Summary: Translation, with additions, of Platina's Vitae pontificum.
    Date Issued or Published
    1622
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    Summary: Translation, with additions, of Platina's Vitae pontificum.
  • The print depicts the cavalcade accompanying Pope Clement XI from the Vatican Basilica to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome on April 10, 1701
    Still image

    Nuouo disegno dell'ordine tenuto nella solenne cavalcata dal palazzo vaticano alla basilica lateranense per il possesso preso da Nostro Signore papa Clemente XI. il di X. aprile M.DCCI

    The print depicts the cavalcade accompanying Pope Clement XI from the Vatican Basilica to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome on April 10, 1701
    Date Issued or Published
    1701
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    The print depicts the cavalcade accompanying Pope Clement XI from the Vatican Basilica to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome on April 10, 1701
  • An engraved portrait of Olaudah Equiano which appears in his autobiography.
    Still image

    Olaudah Equiano of Gustavus Vassa, De Africaan

    An engraved portrait of Olaudah Equiano which appears in his autobiography.
    Date Issued or Published
    1790
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    An engraved portrait of Olaudah Equiano which appears in his autobiography.
  • Summary:
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    Onuphrii Panuinii Veronensis Fratris Eremitae Augustiniani. XXVII. Pontificum Maximorum elogia et imagines

    Panvinio, Onofrio, 1529-1568
    Summary:
    Date Issued or Published
    1568
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
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  • Three-quarter length portrait of Phillis Wheatley, seated at a table, with pen in hand; inkwell and book nearby.
    Still image

    Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

    Three-quarter length portrait of Phillis Wheatley, seated at a table, with pen in hand; inkwell and book nearby.
    Date Created
    1771/1775
    Copyright
    NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES
    Three-quarter length portrait of Phillis Wheatley, seated at a table, with pen in hand; inkwell and book nearby.
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