(FREDERICK DOUGLASS) George Kendall Warren photographer The

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(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) George Kendall Warren, photographer. The classic carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass. Albumen photograph, 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches, on original mount with photographer's backstamp and facsimile signature on mount recto, inked facsimile Douglass signature stamp on recto, pencil "Douglass" on verso; minimal wear and soiling. Boston, circa 1879

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Perhaps the best-known portrait of Douglass, used for the frontispiece of his third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. "Picturing Frederick Douglass" 96.