Horace Mann [photograph], [ca. 1855-1859].

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Horace Mann [photograph], [ca. 1855-1859].

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Hand-colored ninth-plate ambrotype in leather case of the educator, abolitionist, lawyer, and legislator Horace Mann (1796-1859). The ambrotype was taken by an unidentified photographer ca. 1855-1859 and is probably a copy photograph of an original daguerreotype take of Mann by Jesse Harrison Whitehurst ca. 1844-1852.

1 photograph : ambrotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible oval image 5 1/2 x 4 cm (ninth-plate), in case 7 1/2 x 6 cm.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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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...