Joseph Jenkins Roberts, photograph, circa 1851, detail

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Scanned by

Library of Congress

Notes

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 3, 2008.

Depicted ContentJoseph Jenkins Roberts inaugurated as the first president of newly independent Liberia

Depicted ContentJoseph Jenkins Roberts declares the creation of the independent Republic of Liberia

Image type

photograph

Original caption

Joseph Jenkins Roberts, half-length portrait, full face

Source citation

Daguerreotype Collection, Library of Congress

Source note

DAG 1000 Photographer: Rufus Anson

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