[James M. Priest, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk] – Vintage Photo Print
![[James M. Priest, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b9/b9825e50f056-L.webp)
(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 [James M. Priest, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated at desk] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The inscription on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype identifies the sitter as James M. Priest, senator from Sinoe, a county on Liberia's southeastern coast. He sits at a desk, shown three-quarter length and facing the camera squarely, in a format common in the 1850s. Liberia had declared independence in 1847 as a republic founded by settlers sent over by the American Colonization Society, which was organized in 1817 to resettle African Americans there. The plate's connection to that effort, and its later display in an exhibition of work by Augustus Washington, an African American daguerreotypist, make it a useful record of the period. The photographer remains unidentified.
| Created / published | [between 1856 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: James M. Priest, Senator from Sinoe. 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. |
| Subjects | Priest, James M.,--d. 1883. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,261 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 598_James_M_Priest_threequa_1856 |
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