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[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to right], [between 1840 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to right], [between 1840 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Joseph Jenkins Roberts, head-and-shoulders portrait, slightly to right] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This small head-and-shoulders daguerreotype shows Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the Virginia-born statesman who became the first president of the Republic of Liberia in 1848. Roberts, a free man of color, had emigrated to the colony in 1829 under the American Colonization Society, which was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia. The portrait, turned slightly to the right and set in a case with a diamond of leaves at its center, survives in the society's records at the Library of Congress.

Created / published[between 1840 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1840-1860.Daguerreotypes 1840-1860.
NotesCase: central diamond surrounded by leaves. Stamped on brass mat: McCartey. 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.
SubjectsRoberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins),--1809-1876.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,272 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference251_Joseph_Jenkins_Roberts_1840

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