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[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face] – Vintage Photo Print

[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face], [ca. 1851] — historic photograph
[Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face], [ca. 1851]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures [Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A sixth-plate daguerreotype shows Joseph Jenkins Roberts in a half-length, full-face pose, and a label taped to the back of its case identifies him as "President Roberts." The record describes this as a copy, with the original attributed to Augustus Washington, a Black American daguerreotypist who had worked in Hartford, Connecticut, before settling in Liberia. Roberts, born free in Virginia, emigrated to Liberia under the American Colonization Society and became the first president of the republic after it declared independence in 1847. The geometric backdrop and the diamond-patterned case give the piece a typical mid-century studio look.

Created / published[ca. 1851]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesCase: back only, diamond inside geometric design. Label taped on back of case: President Roberts. This is a copy daguerreotype. Anson was not known to have operated a daguerreotype studio when President and Mrs. Roberts visited the United States. The original daguerreotype is attributed to Augustus Washington. See similar backdrop in DAG no. 1029. 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.
SubjectsRoberts, Joseph J. (Joseph Jenkins),--1809-1876.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,374 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference606_Joseph_Jenkins_Roberts_1851

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