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[Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front] – Vintage Photo Print

[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 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front]

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The inscription on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype names the sitter as Chancy Brown and identifies him as a sergeant at arms. Made between 1856 and 1860, the small plate shows him in a three-quarter length pose facing the camera, though the photographer is unidentified. The plate survives among the records of the American Colonization Society, founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Liberia, which places it within the papers of that effort. It was later shown in an exhibition of work by Augustus Washington, a Black daguerreotypist active in the same decade.

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 scan3,802 × 4,730 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220325

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