(CASED IMAGES) Whole plate ambrotype of the abolitionist and

Sale 1925 - Lot 7

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Whole-plate ambrotype of the abolitionist and statesman Owen Lovejoy, delicately hand-tinted; in a full leather swing case. Late 1850s

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Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864) was born at Albion, Maine, where this image was discovered. After briefly attending Bowdoin College, he journeyed to the midwest where he enlisted in the anti-slavery cause and finished his religious education.<