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[Edward Morris, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Edward Morris, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Edward Morris, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk], [between 1856 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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Handwritten on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype is the notation "Ed. Morris, Senator from Sinoe County," which places the sitter in Liberia's government rather than in the United States. Edward Morris, born in 1802, sits full face at a desk in a formal three-quarter view typical of mid-1850s portraiture. Liberia was founded by settlers sent through the American Colonization Society, organized in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Africa, and it declared independence in 1847, so the portrait shows an established Liberian official in the late 1850s. The photographer is unidentified, but the plate's place in the society's records at the Library of Congress preserves a rare image of an early Liberian statesman.

Created / published[between 1856 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: Ed. Morris, Senator from Sinoe County. 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: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
SubjectsMorris, Edward,--b. 1802.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,247 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference582_Edward_Morris_threequar_1856

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