Jane Roberts,of a woman,wife of President of Liberia,Joseph Jenkins Roberts
Title: [Jane Roberts, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, full face]
Creator(s): Anson, Rufus, photographer
Related Names:
Washington, Augustus, 1820 or 1-1875 , photographer
Date Created/Published: [between 1851 and 1860]
Summary: Wife of President of Liberia, Joseph Jenkins Roberts.
Notes:
Case: back only, diamond in geometric design.
Was part of LOT 8554.
Label taped on back of case: Mrs. Prest. Roberts.
This is a copy daguerreotype. Anson was not known to have operated a daguerreotype studio when President and Mrs. Roberts visited the United States. The original daguerreotype is attributed to Augustus Washington. See similar backdrop in DAG no. 1029.
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.
Subjects:
Roberts, Jane,--d. 1911.
Daguerreotypes--1850-1860.
Portrait photographs--1850-1860.
Bookmark /2004664352/
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