James Skivring Smith,Secretery of State of Liberia,Senator,Grand Bassa County

Title: [James Skivring Smith, three-quarter length portrait, three-quarters view, seated at desk]
Date Created/Published: [between 1856 and 1860]
Summary: Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina. Arrived in Liberia in 1833. Secretary of State of Liberia, 1856-1860. Senator, Grand Bassa County, 1868-1869. Vice president under Edward Roye, 1870-1871. Superintendent Grand Bassa County, 1874-1884.
Notes:
Photographer unidentified.
Was part of LOT 8554.
Hallmark: Rinhart 20a.
Written on back plate: Doctor J. S. Smith, Senator from Bassa Co.
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.
Subjects:
Smith, J. S.--(James Skivring),--b. ca. 1825.
Daguerreotypes--1850-1860.
Portrait photographs--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2004664356/
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