(SLAVERY ABOLITION) George Kendall Warren photographer The

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) George Kendall Warren, photographer. The classic carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Douglass. Albumen photograph, 3¾ x 2 inches, on original mount with photographer's backmark on mount recto, and small embossed stamp of G.W. Thorne of New York on lower mount recto, inscribed "F Douglas" in pencil on verso in unknown early hand; minimal wear. 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," published in 1881. It is listed in "Picturing Frederick Douglass" as image 96, with a circa 1879 date.