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“There had never been such an open interracial marriage by such a famous and important black man”
– David Blight on the marriage of Douglass and Pitts
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suffragist Helen Pitts Douglass,
the second wife of Frederick Douglass
Helen Pitts Douglass (c. 1880) albumen print
“Love came to me, and I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color.” – Helen Pitts Douglass.
“No man, perhaps, had ever more offended popular prejudice than I had then lately done. I had married a wife. People who had remained silent over the unlawful relations of white slave masters with their colored slave women loudly condemned me for marrying a wife a few shades lighter than myself.” – Frederick Douglass
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“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity – unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.”
– Henry Clay
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Henry Clay, “The Great Compromiser”
Montgomery Simons, attr. Henry Clay (1848) half plate daguerreotype
“As Mr. Potter and myself were about arranging Mr. Clay’s drapery, I asked him if he had any choice of position; his answer was, ‘None whatever, sir; I am Clay in the hands of a Potter, let him mould me as he will.’”
– Montgomery Simons on the Clay portrait session
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“How masterly … are her straightforward, truthful portraits, which are entirely free from false sentiment.” “It is they which have made her work immortal in the annals of photography.”
– Gernsheim on Cameron
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Cameron’s mentor, G. F. Watts
Julia Margaret Cameron. George Frederic Watts (1865) albumen print
George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), the renowned English Victorian painter, was one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s closest friends and art mentors.
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“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” |
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the Gettysburg Lincoln
Alexander Gardner. Abraham Lincoln (November 8, 1863)
mammoth albumen print (22 x 17 ½ in.)
Lincoln sat for this portrait at Gardner's studio
just days before he delivered the Gettysburg Address
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important early New York historian and diplomat – and Melville's agent |
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diplomat, scholar, and Melville's agent
John Mayall. John Romeyn Brodhead (1848)
half-plate daguerreotype
Brodhead was a pioneering scholar of the early history of New York and a member of the American diplomatic corps. As the secretary of the American legation in London, he served as advisor and agent to Herman Melville in securing the publication of his early works in England.
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last surviving veterans of the Revolutionary War |
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last men of the Revolution
N. A. & R. A. Moore. Complete set of six portraits of the last surviving veterans of the American Revolution (1864)
6 albumen prints, carte-de-visite mounts
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Black woman posing with a white child
Black woman with white child (c. 1870s)
sixth-plate tintype, gold highlights
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“Yes–that was an actual moth,” “the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends: I had quite the in-and-out of taming, or fraternizing with, some of the insects, animals.” Whitman told the historian William Roscoe Thayer, “I’ve always had the knack of attracting birds and butterflies and other wild critters.”
- Walt Whitman
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the butterfly photograph
Phillips & Taylor. Walt Whitman (early 1880s) albumen print
framed with a large, bold Whitman signature
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“Ed Clark’s photograph of an openly weeping Chief Petty Officer (USN) Graham Jackson playing “Goin’ Home” on his accordion as FDR’s flag-draped casket passes by in April 1945 has, through the years, come to symbolize not merely a nation’s grief, but black America’s acknowledgement of Roosevelt’s efforts on behalf of civil rights while he was in office.” |
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iconic photograph from Life magazine
Ed Clark. FDR Funeral (1945)
gelatin silver print
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“Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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three Ralph Waldo Emerson portraits
(Emerson.) Collection of three portraits of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860s-80s)
three albumen prints
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“The rise of the Standard Oil men to great wealth was not from poverty. It was not meteor-like, but accomplished over a quarter of a century by courageous venturing in a field so risky that most large capitalists avoided it, by arduous labors, and by more sagacious and farsighted planning than had been applied to any other American industry.”
– Allan Nevins
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titan of industry
G. M. Edmondson. John D. Rockefeller (1911)
gelatin silver print signed by Rockefeller
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“an absolutely unmatched masterpiece of visual anthropology, and one of the most thorough, extensive and profound photograph works of all time” |
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rare Curtis glass plate
Edward S. Curtis. Tolowa Dancing Headdress (1924)
Original glass plate interpositive prepared by Curtis for the printing of The North American Indian
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“I like this photograph very much better
than any other which has been taken of me.”
– Charles Darwin
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the iconic Darwin portrait
Julia Margaret Cameron. Charles Darwin (1868)
albumen print
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New York, New York USA
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