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Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library
Caesar, an enslaved man, 1851
1851
Daguerreotype. Portrait of an African-American male figure, three quarters-length, front view, holding a staff or a shovel (?) in his right hand, wearing a white collar, dark foulard, and checked waistcoat. A note taped to the back of the case identifies the sitter and sitter's history: "born a slave of Van R. Nicoll, son of William, in 1737 at Bethlehem, N.Y., where he died in 1852, the last slave to die in the North.”
Print Room -- Cased Image File -- PR 12-2-323 46594_PR_012_002_323_CaesarDaguerreotype.tif
African American men--New York (State)--Portraits Blacks--New York (State)--Portraits Slaves--New York (State)--Portraits
Caesar, 1737-1852
daguerreotypes (photographs)
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