| Unidentified photographer (American) George Lippard 1840s (late) - 1854 Daguerreotype 10.8 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 ins) Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number: 2000.280 LL/79357 Curatorial description (Accessed: 17 December 2017)
A religious and philosophical child prodigy from Philadelphia, George Lippard (1822-1854) was a prolific author and a steadfast defender of the oppressed. In 1847, he founded the Brotherhood of America, an organization that continues to champion the underprivileged today, and his writings are said to have awakened Abraham Lincoln to the plight of slaves. Lippard, whose best known essays recorded "Legends" of old Philadelphia, was also a close friend of Edgar Allan Poe.
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