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[Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front] – Vintage Wall Art

[Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front], [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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[Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front]

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A handwritten note on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype identifies the sitter as Chancy Brown, Sergeant at Arms, and shows him in three-quarter length, facing the camera. The plate dates from between 1856 and 1860, when daguerreotypes dominated portraiture, though its maker remains unidentified. It survives in the records of the American Colonization Society, founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Liberia. The image was later shown in an exhibition on Augustus Washington, an African American daguerreotypist working in the same decades.

Created / published[between 1856 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 20a. Written on back of plate: Chancy Brown, Sargeant at Arms. 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.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,206 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference65_Chancy_Brown_threequart_1856

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