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Title
Candy Sam portrait photograph
Creator
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Contributor
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Date Created and/or Issued
186-?
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
Studio portrait of Theodore Ferris, better known as Candy Sam, a blind African American man who worked as a candy vendor on the campus of Yale University in the 19th century. He is shown seated, with a large box marked "Yale Confectionery" strapped over his shoulder
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Still image
Title devised by cataloger
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black and white albumen print on paper mount ; 12 x 9 cm, on sheet 33 x 25 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5503458n
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Photographs
Nineteenth century
African Americans
New Haven (Conn.)
Place
New Haven (Conn.)

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