What is the the American Colonization Society Records?
“The American Colonization Society collection, a group of material related to African American emigration to Liberia, contains thirty daguerreotypes of Liberian government officials and other colonists. The sitters include Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia; his wife, Jane Roberts; Stephen Allen Benson, Secretary of the Treasury under Roberts; and Edward W. Blyden, who became a prominent educator in Liberia. Five images have the name of the photographer, Augustus Washington, stamped on their brass mats. Washington was a black daguerreotypist who operated a studio in Hartford, Connecticut, until November 1853 when he moved to Liberia. An additional eleven images, housed in identical brass mats and preservers, were also most likely taken by Washington.” Source http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/dagscope.html LETS RUN DOWN SOME FACTS FACT: President John Hanson Was Born in 1721 and died in 1783. FACT: Daguerreotypes was invented by French artist and inventor Louis Jac
