Unknown photographer Bust-length portrait of Gerrit Smith; white man facing left. Daguerreotype, sixth plate

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Title: Unknown photographer Bust-length portrait of Gerrit Smith; white man facing left. Daguerreotype, sixth plate
Creator: From the Collection: Simpson, Randolph Linsly, 1927-1992
Published / Created: circa 1855
Description: Portrait of Gerrit Smith (1797-1874) prominent wealthy abolitionist, supporter of John Brown and Frederick Douglass. Earliest known portrait of subject without a beard.
Provenance: Purchase from Swann Galleries, Inc., 1995 on various funds.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 54

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Container / Volume

Box 1, folder 6

Access: Public
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Citation: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.