Ambrotype of Frederick Douglass
- Medium
- collodion and silver on glass photographic plates with leather and velvet
- Genre
- Ambrotype
Styles
Tags
AntislaveryphotographyAnti-slavery movementsSocial reform
About
A black-and-white photograph of Frederick Douglass wearing a jacket, waistcoat, and bowtie. The wet plate ambrotype plates are housed in a folding leather case with tooled gilt oval mat and red velvet lining.
![[Ruins with columns]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/f5bb9b4b-b5d0-4a2f-83a7-42bc4fc207ce/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Unidentified little girl wearing a flowered dress]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d7ae6a17-9508-432e-993d-39a8ca0835c4/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
![[Boy holding a whip]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/79a702a7-af3c-4201-b13b-aada28136267/full/843,/0/default.jpg)