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Wendell Phillips [graphic] / Sarony, 37 Union Sqr., N.Y.
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Creator
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer.
Title
Wendell Phillips [graphic] / Sarony, 37 Union Sqr., N.Y.
Publisher
[New York]
Publisher
N.Y. New York. 1875
Date
[ca. 1875]
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 17 cm (6.5 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card 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 jacket with velvet lapels, faces left. Phillips, a Garrisonian, served on the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, argued that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document to be nullified, and advocated for Black equality following the Civil War.
Notes
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date inferred from active dates of photographer and presented age of sitter.
Gift of Richard P. Morgan, 1996.
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
Sarony, the leading photographer of celebrity portrait cabinet cards in the 1870s and 1880s, paid the highest sitter fees of the time and often acted as artistic designer as opposed to technician of the portraits.
Subject
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 -- Portraits.
American Anti-Slavery Society.
Abolitionists -- United States.
Orators -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cabinet photographs -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| cabinet card portraits - sitter - Phillips [P.9516.2]
Accession number
P.9516.2
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African American History Photographs
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