African Americana

2 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. CDV on cardstock mount (light toning and scattered spotting, light wear to mount). Mount recto bears printed caption reading, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. / Sojourner Truth." Verso with imprint, "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by Sojourner Truth, in the Clerk's Office, of the US District Court, for the Eastern District of Michigan." Truth appears seated at a table with flowers, engaged in a knitting project.

[With:] A group of approximately 40 CDVs, an unmounted CDV-sized albumen photograph, 3 tintypes, and 4 gem-sized tintypes on mounts. Most images unidentified. Varying conditions but generally good. Also with empty CDV album (heavily worn and separated at spine). Consignor relates the Sojourner Truth CDV was originally housed in accompanying CDV album with accompanying images.