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[James B. Yates, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, seated in chair at desk] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[James B. Yates, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, seated in chair at desk], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[James B. Yates, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, seated in chair at desk], [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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A sixth-plate daguerreotype of James B. Yates, seated at a desk in three-quarter view, survives with an inscription on the back of the plate reading "Sect. of the Senate in 1857." The Library of Congress catalogs it among the American Colonization Society records, which the society organized in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Liberia. The photographer is unidentified, but the plate was later shown in an exhibition of work by Augustus Washington, a Black daguerreotypist. Yates was born in 1838, so the inscribed office would have been held at roughly nineteen, a detail worth weighing against the title.

Created / published[between 1856 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Hallmark: Rinhart 20a. Written on back of plate: James B. Yates Sect. of the Senate in 1857. 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, James B.,--b. 1838.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,806 × 4,725 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220320

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