Category:Agassiz Zealy slave portraits

**Agassiz Zealy slave portraits**
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Instance of	photograph series;
Creator	Louis Agassiz; Joseph T. Zealy;
Inception	1850;
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In 1850 Louis Agassiz commissioned a series of photographs for his study of "races". Photographer Joseph T. Zealy (1812-93) of Columbia, South Carolina, made a series of Daguerreotypes of slaves in the area around Columbia for Agassiz. The photographic subjects being a mix of African and American born slaves, male and female, per Agassiz's instructions.

These are rare portraits of individual slaves made in the USA before emancipation.

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The following 17 files are in this category, out of 17 total.

Delia1850FrontPortrait.jpg 336 × 441; 61 KB
DeliaDaughterOfRentry.jpg 171 × 228; 7 KB
Drana (frontal portrait).jpg 404 × 500; 181 KB
Drana (profile view).jpg 388 × 500; 170 KB
Jack1850FrontZealy.jpg 302 × 439; 58 KB
JackGuineaProfileSlavePortrait.jpg 767 × 994; 56 KB
Renty - Agassiz.jpg 1,602 × 2,048; 386 KB
Renty an African slave.jpg 1,979 × 2,420; 1.18 MB
Renty in 1850.gif 198 × 339; 55 KB
Renty or Rentry.png 198 × 339; 51 KB
Renty, Daguerreotype, by JT Zealy, 1850.jpg 2,848 × 3,642; 629 KB
Slave Portrait Agassiz Zealy Man Front 01.jpg 197 × 256; 5 KB
Slave Portrait Agassiz Zealy Man Side Bust 2.jpg 198 × 255; 5 KB
Slave Portrait Agassiz Zealy Man Side One Leg.jpg 199 × 253; 5 KB
Slave Portrait Agassiz Zealy Man Standing Back.jpg 1,748 × 2,617; 5.41 MB
Slave Portrait Agassiz Zealy Woman Side Bust 1.jpg 198 × 254; 4 KB
Slave Portrait Agassiz Zealy Woman Side Bust 2.jpg 197 × 255; 5 KB

Category:Agassiz Zealy slave portraits

Media in category "Agassiz Zealy slave portraits"

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