Historical Portrait
[David Flavel Jamison, president of the Secession Convention and South Carolina Secretary of War]
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1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 101 x 62 mm (carte de visite format)
About this photograph
The Library of Congress holds this carte de visite albumen print showing David Flavel Jamison. According to the archive record, he served as president of the Secession Convention and as South Carolina Secretary of War. The photograph is dated to 1860, the year before South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union.
The small card mount measures 101 by 62 millimetres, a standard size for cartes de visite, which were popular photographic formats of the period.
No other details about Jamison's life, career, or the circumstances of this portrait are provided by the record.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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