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George Bancroft by John Jabez Edwin Mayall / Half-plate daguerreotype (hand-colored), c. 1847
National Portrait Gallery
8th and G Streets, NW
Washington, DC
Often we associate one image with a person from history especially in a museum setting. This show highlights the depth of the National Portrait Gallery’s early photography collection, featuring fourteen historic daguerreotypes—two portraits each of famous mid-19th century figures, including Frederick Douglass, Jenny Lind, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis.
