Horace Mann [photograph], [ca. 1844-1852].

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Horace Mann [photograph], [ca. 1844-1852].

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Half-plate daguerreotype in leather case of the educator, abolitionist, lawyer, and legislator Horace Mann (1796-1859), taken by one of the galleries of photographer Jesse Harrison Whitehurst, circa 1844-1852.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w ; visible oval image 12 x 9 cm. (half-plate), in case 15 1/4 x 12 1/4 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Whitehurst, Jesse Harrison, 1819-1875

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Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

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Horace Mann was an educator and a statesman who greatly advanced the cause of universal, free, non-sectarian public schools. Mann also advocated temperance, abolition, hospitals for the mentally ill, and women's rights. From the description of Horace Mann Letter, 1858. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 213372958 Horace Mann, "Father of our Public Schools," was born in Franklin, Massachusetts on May 4, 1796. His family was poor and his father di...