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[Beverly Page Yates, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at table, holding rolled piece of paper] – Antique Photo Print

[Beverly Page Yates, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at table, holding rolled piece of paper], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Beverly Page Yates, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at table, holding rolled piece of paper], [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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Beverly Page Yates, identified on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype as vice president of the Republic of Liberia, sits at a table holding a rolled sheet of paper, a pose that hints at the correspondence and documents of public office. Liberia had been founded by settlers sent out under the American Colonization Society, which was organized in 1817 to resettle African Americans in West Africa, and it declared independence in 1847. The photographer is unidentified, but the plate was later included in an exhibition of work by Augustus Washington, a Black daguerreotypist working in the same decade.

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: Beverly Page Yates, Vice President of the Republic of Liberia. 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.
SubjectsYates, Beverly Page,--ca. 1811 -ca. 1883.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,787 × 4,711 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220319

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