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[Edward Wilmot Blyden, half-length portrait, facing front, holding book] – Vintage Photo Print

[Edward Wilmot Blyden, half-length portrait, facing front, holding book], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Edward Wilmot Blyden, half-length portrait, facing front, holding book], [between 1851 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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A sixth-plate daguerreotype shows Edward Wilmot Blyden in a half-length, front-facing pose, holding a book, with his name inscribed on both the case label and the inside of the case. Blyden, born in the Danish West Indies in 1832, emigrated to Liberia in 1851 and became one of the most influential writers and educators in West Africa. The portrait survives within the American Colonization Society records, an organization founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Liberia, which connects the image to that project. The catalog notes that it may be a copy daguerreotype, so its details and provenance are worth reading alongside the image itself.

Created / published[between 1851 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesCase: diamond in geometric design. Label on case: Blyden. Label on inside of case: Edward Blyden. Stamped on brass mat: Anson 589 Broadway. Possibly a copy daguerreotype. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia.
SubjectsBlyden, Edward Wilmot,--1832-1912.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,302 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213487

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