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[John Hanson, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, wearing glasses, seated at desk] – Vintage Wall Art

[John Hanson, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, wearing glasses, seated at desk], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[John Hanson, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, wearing glasses, seated at desk], [between 1856 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Seated at a desk in three-quarter view and wearing glasses, John Hanson appears here as a legislator, identified on the back of the plate as senator from Bassa County, Liberia. The sixth-plate daguerreotype dates from about 1856 to 1860, when the American Colonization Society was resettling Black Americans in Liberia, a republic the Society had helped establish on the West African coast and which declared independence in 1847. The photographer is unidentified, but the plate survives in the Society's records at the Library of Congress and was later included in an exhibition on Augustus Washington, a Black American daguerreotypist. It offers a rare glimpse of a Liberian public official from that era.

Created / published[between 1856 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: John Hanson, Senator from Bassa Co. 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. Exhibited: A durable memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American daguerreotypist. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
SubjectsHanson, John,--Liberian senator.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,256 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference602_John_Hanson_threequarte_1856

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