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Augustus Washington (c. 1820 – June 7, 1875) was an American photographer and daguerreotypist. He was born in New Jersey as a free person of color and immigrated to Liberia in 1852. He is one of the few African-American daguerreotypists whose career has been documented.
He was born in Trenton, New Jersey, as the son of a former slave and a woman of South Asian descent. He studied at Oneida Institute in Whitesboro, New York, and the Kimball Union Academy, before entering Dartmouth College in 1843. He learned making daguerreotypes during his first year to finance his college education, but had to leave Dartmouth College in 1844 due to increasing debts. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut, teaching black students at a local school and opening a Daguerrean studio in 1846.
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Augustus Washington (c. 1820 – June 7, 1875) was an American photographer and daguerreotypist. He was born in New Jersey as a free person of color and immigrated to Liberia in 1852. He is one of the few African-American daguerreotypists whose career has been documented.[1]
Augustus Washington was born in Trenton, New Jersey, as the son of a former slave and a woman of South Asian descent. He studied at Oneida Institute in Whitesboro, New York, and the Kimball Union Academy, before entering Dartmouth College in 1843. He learned making daguerreotypes during his first year to finance his college education, but had to leave Dartmouth College in 1844 due to increasing debts. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut, teaching black students at a local school and opening a Daguerrean studio in 1846.[2]
Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843
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Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.
The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.
Robbins, Thomas, 1777-1856. Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.
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Thomas Robbins collection, 1792-1852.
Personal papers of a Connecticut minister, book collector, and librarian at the Connecticut Historical Society. Includes letters from his family while Thomas was a student at Yale College; a long letter home from his travels in Vermont, 1801; letters home while he served in the Western Reserve of Ohio as a missionary for the Missionary Society of Connecticut, 1803-1806; minutes of Society meetings at East Windsor, Connecticut, where he was minister beginning in 1809; notes for sermons as well as complete sermons; letters from his sister Sarah Battel; sermon reviews, 1810-1814; correspondence and bills and receipts from book dealers; records of his donations to the American Board of Foreign Missions and his activities in the Temperance movement; invitations to preach at various churches in Connecticut and Massachusetts; and correspondence with Chauncey A. Goodrich, Benjamin Ely, Eleazar Lord, William Stebbins, Milo L. North, and Peter Starr. Also includes 13 volumes of his diary. Materials are arranged chronologically. Also a collection of "school papers" consisting of school visitor reports for Augustus Washington's school and the First and Second Colored Schools; correspondence about the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut; and data on and about various schools in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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9.0 linear feet (16 boxes, 13 volumes).
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