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[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles], [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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The back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype bears a handwritten inscription naming the sitter as Rev. Philip Koker, Chaplain of the Senate, though the catalog spells the name Coker. He sits three-quarters length, facing the camera and wearing spectacles, in a portrait made between 1856 and 1860, when the process was still a common way to sit for a likeness. The plate is part of the American Colonization Society records, a group founded in 1817 to resettle African Americans in Liberia, which places the portrait within the debates over race, freedom and emigration in the years before the Civil War. The photographer is unidentified, but the image has been shown in exhibitions of work by Black daguerreotypists.

Created / published[between 1856 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
NotesPhotographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: Rev. Philip Koker, Chaplain of the Senate. 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. Exhibited: Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,252 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference106_Philip_Coker_threequart_1856

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