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Frederick Douglass Was the Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

Do you know who the most photographed American of the 19th century was? It’s not George Custer (155 photos) or Walt Witman or Abraham Lincoln (130 each). The person with the most portraits made of them in the 1800s was Frederick Douglass, the African-American abolitionist, speaker, writer, and statesman. That’s the finding that has just […] from PetaPixel