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

[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 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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[Edward Wilmot Blyden, half-length portrait, facing front, holding book]

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Shown in half-length with a book in hand, Edward Wilmot Blyden sits for this sixth-plate daguerreotype, its brass mat stamped with the New York address of the Anson studio at 589 Broadway. Blyden, born in the Danish West Indies in 1832, emigrated to Liberia in 1851 under the auspices of the American Colonization Society, which had been founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Africa. He went on to become a writer, educator and public official whose essays on African identity and education shaped debate across the Atlantic. The record notes that this may be a copy daguerreotype, which suggests the image was reproduced from an earlier likeness.

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 scan1,335 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference49_Edward_Wilmot_Blyden_ha_1851

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