(RECONSTRUCTION) Carte de visite portrait of United States S

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(RECONSTRUCTION.) Carte-de-visite portrait of United States Senator Hiram Revels. Albumen photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 inches, on original plain mount; mount cropped to image along bottom edge, very light spotting in negative. Np, circa early 1870s

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Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901) became the first African-American in Congress when chosen to represent Mississippi in the Senate in 1870. He also served as a clergyman and college president.