Details
Creator Sarony's and Gurney & Son's, photographer.
Contributor Hovey, E.F., publisher.
Title Fred. Douglass. [graphic] / Sarony's and Gurney & Son's Celebrities a Speciality.
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by E.F. Hovey, No. 1226 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1873
Date [ca. 1873]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 7 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Bust-length portrait of the African American abolitionist and orator. Douglass, with white hair and a mustache and attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a dark-colored waistcoat and jacket, faces slightly right while his eyes look to the left.
Notes Title from manuscript note on recto.
Date inferred from presented age of the sitter.
Accessioned 1979.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Biographical / historical note New York photographers Napoleon Sarony and Jeremiah Gurney & Son, two of a small number specializing in celebrity portraits, produced a majority of such portraiture in the 1860s and 1870s.
Subject Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Portraits.
African American abolitionists -- United States.
African American men.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cartes-de-visite -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880
Printer Hovey, E.F., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cdv portraits - sitter - Douglass [P.2282.112]
Accession number P.2282.112