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This rare daguerreotype of Douglass is dated around 1850. It features Douglass in profile,
a pose that is unusual but not rare. The daguerreotype is named for Louis Jacques Mande
Daguerre, who is credited with developing the first commercial method for reproducing the
photographic images in 1839. The image is fixed on a chemically sensitized metal plate
coated with silver. Daguerreotypes are not made from negatives and are therefore rare
one-of-a-kind creations. This particular image, by an unknown artist, is a ¼ plate
daguerreotype. [Prints and Photographs Department, Manuscript Division, Moorland-Spingarn
Research Center, Howard University]
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