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[Beverly Page Yates, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at table, holding rolled piece of paper] – Vintage Wall Art

[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 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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Written on the back of this plate is the name Beverly Page Yates and his title, vice president of the Republic of Liberia. The sixth-plate daguerreotype shows him seated at a table, turned slightly to the right, holding a rolled sheet of paper that hints at official business. The photographer is unidentified, but the image dates from roughly 1856 to 1860, when the American Colonization Society was sending African Americans to Liberia, a colony it had helped establish. The plate is held by the Library of Congress as part of the Society's records.

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 scan1,313 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference572_Beverly_Page_Yates_half_1856

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