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[Alfred Francis Russell, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk] – Vintage Photo Print

[Alfred Francis Russell, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Alfred Francis Russell, 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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[Alfred Francis Russell, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk]

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Written on the back of this plate is the note identifying the sitter as A.F. Russell, senator from Montserrado County, and he sits at a desk, turned full face toward the camera. Russell (1817-1884) was one of the Americans who settled in Liberia under the American Colonization Society, founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans there, and the plate survives among the society's records at the Library of Congress. Although the maker is unidentified, the picture was later included in an exhibition of work by Augustus Washington, an African American daguerreotypist active in the same years.

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: A.F. Russell, Senator from Montserrado Co. 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.
SubjectsRussell, Alfred Francis,--1817-1884.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,319 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference564_Alfred_Francis_Russell_1856

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