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[Unidentified man with beard, half-length portrait, full face] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Unidentified man with beard, half-length portrait, full face], [between 1854 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified man with beard, half-length portrait, full face], [between 1854 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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Unlike most portraits on this board, this sixth-plate daguerreotype belongs to a specific body of work: it was included in the Library of Congress exhibition *A durable memento*, which showcased portraits by Augustus Washington, an African American daguerreotypist. Washington worked in Hartford, Connecticut, in the 1850s before emigrating to Liberia, though the bearded sitter in this full-face, half-length pose remains unidentified. The plate is held in the American Colonization Society records, the organization founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Liberia, which ties this unnamed face to that migration.

Created / published[between 1854 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesTransfer; 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 scan1,302 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference645_Unidentified_man_with_b_1854

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