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Augustus Washington
John Brown
1847 (ca)
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
LL/33087
This daguerreotype of abolitionist was taken by African-American photographer twelve years before led his aborted slave insurrection in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Before the introduction of the daguerreotype, it is unlikely that a working man like would have left his image for future generations to ponder.
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