Details
Title Wendell Phillips [graphic].
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1870
Date [United States]
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Bust-length portrait of the radical Massachusetts abolitionist, orator, women’s rights and labor advocate. Phillips, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket, faces slightly left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War.
Notes Title from manuscript note written on mount.
American Celebrities Album.
Purchase 1985.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
Subject Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 -- Portraits.
American Anti-Slavery Society.
Abolitionists -- United States.
Orators -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Genre Cartes de visite.
Portrait photographs.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| American Celebrities Album [(I)P.9100.33b]
Accession number (I)P.9100.33b