(FREDERICK DOUGLASS) [Samuel Montague Fassett; photographer]

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(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) [Samuel Montague Fassett; photographer.] Carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass taken during the Civil War. Albumen copy-print photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 inches, on period mount with printed caption "Fred. Douglas"; minor foxing. [Chicago, IL, late February 1864]

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Probably the most popular war-date portrait of Douglass. He was in Chicago to deliver two lectures just across the street from photographer Fassett's studio on 25 and 28 February 1864. See "Picturing Frederick Douglass," #28 and page 24.