[Jane Roberts, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, full face] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Jane Roberts, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, full face], [between 1851 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c9/c9b13db21845-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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A window into the past: [Jane Roberts, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, full face], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Jane Roberts, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, full face]
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A three-quarter length portrait shows Jane Roberts, wife of Joseph Jenkins Roberts, who was serving as president of Liberia when the couple visited the United States in the early 1850s. This sixth-plate image is a copy of an original daguerreotype attributed to Augustus Washington, a Black American photographer who ran a studio in Hartford, Connecticut, before emigrating to Liberia. The copy was made for the American Colonization Society records now held by the Library of Congress, and its case back, with a label naming the sitter, carries a diamond geometric design.
| Created / published | [between 1851 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Case: back only, diamond in geometric design. Label taped on back of case: Mrs. Prest. 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. |
| Subjects | Roberts, Jane,--d. 1911. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,329 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 600_Jane_Roberts_threequart_1851 |
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