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[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles] – Historic Photograph Print

[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles], [between 1856 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the African American History 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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[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles]

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A handwritten note on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype names the seated sitter, who wears spectacles and faces the camera squarely, as Rev. Philip Koker, Chaplain of the Senate. The plate, made between 1856 and 1860, survives within the records of the American Colonization Society, founded in 1817 to resettle African Americans in Liberia. Its later display in exhibitions on African American portraiture reflects how such images now serve as evidence of how Black Americans presented themselves before the Civil War.

Created / published[between 1856 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: Rev. Philip Koker, Chaplain of the Senate. Hallmark: Rinhart 20a. 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: Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,816 × 4,740 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220321

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