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[Robert Purvis] [graphic].
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Title
[Robert Purvis] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia?]
Date
[ca. 1890]
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount; 16 x 11 cm (6 x 4.25 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description
Bust profile portrait of the Philadelphia African American abolitionist during his later years. Shows Purvis with white hair, wearing mutton chops, and attired in a jacket and bow tie. Purvis was a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Library Company of Colored People, as well as a president of the Pennsylvania Anti-slavery Society and a vice-president of the woman's Suffrage Society.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Mount trimmed with the upper edge of three letters of the name of the publisher barely visible.
Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund.
Subject
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 -- Portraits.
African American abolitionists -- United States.
Genre
Portrait photographs -- 1880-1890
Cabinet photographs -- 1880-1890.
Albumen prints -- 1880-1890.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cabinet Cards - Sitter - P [P.2014.31]
Accession number
P.2014.31
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African American History Photographs
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