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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.
Frederick
Douglass’ Newspaper. Vol. VII, No. 32, Whole Number 344. July 28, 1854.
Bifolium, creased where folded with some wear at the conjoining of the vertical and hori-
zontal folds; some light foxing and discoloration.
Rochester, New York 1854
[3,000/5,000]
Most of the issue is devoted to the Edinburgh Anti-Slavery Society. The last page contains a
large (13 1/2 x 2 1/2 inch) advertisement: “Call for a National Emigration Convention of
Colored Men to be held in Cleveland Ohio.” Signed in print by Martin R. Delany, and many
other prominent African Americans of the day.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.
Frederick
Douglass.
Life-sized plaster bust, 28
1
⁄
4
x 20 inches; some overall chipping of the light
brown surface paint on the head and body, the only chipping to the piece itself at the base.
[Chillicothe, OH :Dayton Morgan, 1868]
[3,000/4,000]
This very life-like depiction of a middle-aged Douglass was created by sculptor Dayton Morgan
of Chillicothe, Ohio. There is a patent number on the back of the bust, so it would seem that
Morgan intended to produce at least a few copies. We however could not locate any. Morgan,
born in Vermont in 1842, is listed in the 1840 census as a landscape artist. The patent, num-
ber 3151 - “Design for a bust of Frederick Douglass” was registered on August 4, 1868
together with a photograph of Douglass that conforms with the bust. Douglass is depicted
beardless, with just a moustache.
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