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Title
Portrait of Blind Tom
Creator
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued
Between 1860-1870?
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information
Public domain
Constraint(s) on Use: This work may be used without prior permission.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Cabinet card. Photograph of Blind Tom, African American pianist and composer, sitting on a chair, with one arm resting on a table. Printed on recto and verso is the number "632". Also printed on the verso, "Warren / Boston and Cambridgepo"... with text partially covered by paper label with brief handwritten biographical statement. Some writing in pencil, and "Blind Tom" in ink
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Still image
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print : sepia ; 17 x 11 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb23976271
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Photographs
Pianists
African American composers
African American musicians
Blind musicians
United States
Blind Tom, 1849-1908
Place
United States

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