Half-length portrait of the abolitionist, reformer, Unitarian minister, and author. Hale, wearing a white beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and a jacket, faces slightly left. Hale authored abolitionist tracts about the admission of western territories as free states., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint with insignia stamped on recto and verso., Gift of Dr. Milton and Joan Wohl, 1991., 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.
Creator
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cabinet card portraits - sitter - Hale [P.9363.33]
Bust-length portrait of the Boston Unitarian clergyman, social reformer, and abolitionist. Parker is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, and a black jacket and faces the viewer. Parker aided John Brown and was active in New England antislavery societies which provided shelter and legally defended freedom seekers, including William and Ellen Craft, the first enslaved Bostonians sought under the Fugitive Slave Law., Title from item., Date inferred from history of the engraver and attire of sitter., Accessioned 1982., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Schoff, an engraver in Boston from the early 1840s until the 1860s, specialized in portraiture.
Creator
Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904, engraver
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait Prints-P [P.8911.751]
