tuesday-johnson: ca. 1846-47, [daguerreotype portrait of John Brown, abolitionist who led the Pottawatomie Massacre, and the raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859], August Washington Along with another image, likely taken during the same sitting, this plate is probably the first daguerreotype taken of abolitionist John Brown, and was almost certainly taken during the same sitting as the now famous image of Brown curated at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. Long-lost to history, this portrait, along with the Portrait Gallery plate, was made by the African American daguerreotypist Augustus Washington in his Hartford, Connecticut studio in 1846-47. via Cowan’s Auction

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1846-47, [daguerreotype portrait of John Brown, abolitionist who led the Pottawatomie Massacre, and the raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859], August Washington

Along with another image, likely taken during the same sitting, this plate is probably the first daguerreotype taken of abolitionist John Brown, and was almost certainly taken during the same sitting as the now famous image of Brown curated at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. Long-lost to history, this portrait, along with the Portrait Gallery plate, was made by the African American daguerreotypist Augustus Washington in his Hartford, Connecticut studio in 1846-47.

via Cowan’s Auction

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    John Brown, muthafucka!
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    Along with another image, likely taken during the same sitting, this plate is probably the first daguerreotype taken of...
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    it’s just his face i don’t even
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    I have always had a strange fascination with John Brown, partially because he has the same name as my father and the...
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    Holy shit, John Motherfucking Brown on my dash! This man gives me so many feelings. On one hand he was an ardent...
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    This man helped cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands because he couldn’t calm the fuck down. There is more than one...
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