Unidentified photographer
1856-1860
[Chancy Brown, three-quarter length portrait, facing front]

Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-6772
 
Sargeant at Arms of the Liberian Senate.
 
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.
 
LL/29827