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

[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 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 inscription on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype reads "James B. Yates Sect. of the Senate in 1857," which would make the sitter a Senate secretary while still in his late teens, given the record's birth year of 1838. He sits at a desk, turned three-quarters from the camera, in the formal pose common to portrait studios of the late 1850s. The plate survives in the American Colonization Society Records at the Library of Congress. The society, founded in 1817, aimed to resettle Black Americans in Liberia. The plate was also shown in an exhibition of portraits by Augustus Washington, an African American daguerreotypist, though this plate's photographer is unidentified.

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 scan3,262 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference597_James_B_Yates_threequar_1856

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