Portraits of America

[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left]

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[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left], 1880 (Library of Congress)
[Booker T. Washington, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left], 1880 (Library of Congress)
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1 photographic print on cabinet card.


The Library of Congress holds this cabinet card portrait from 1880, showing Booker T. Washington in three-quarter length view, standing and facing left.

The photograph is catalogued to January 1880. No photographer is recorded. The archive does not provide information about the circumstances of the sitting, Washington's age at the time, or where the portrait was made.

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Cabinet Cards

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