Read: (a) Frederick Douglass, “Pictures and Progress” (The Frederick Douglass Papers, Series One: Speeches, Debates, and Interviews, Volume 3: 1855-63)

Douglass’s famous 1861 lecture, titled “Pictures and Progress” is partly about photography, partly about the Civil War (we will focus on the part about photography: this ends, approx., around the section that begins: “Man is not a block of marble…”).

(b) Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith, “Introduction” (Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, ed. Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith)

Intro-to-Pictures-and-ProgressDownload

View: Core archive plus misc. portraits by Augustus Washington

CORE ARCHIVE: Portraits of Frederick Douglass

http://www.abolitionseminar.org/images/douglass_1840/

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2001.756

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/145681

https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?old=1&item_id=1094&ft=Collection%20Guides&from=/collection-guides/view/fap014

https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?old=1&item_id=1095&ft=Collection%20Guides&from=/collection-guides/view/fap014

Misc. portraits by Augustus Washington

Augustus Washington, John Brown

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2013/02/augustus-washington-daguerreotypist/

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=augustus+washington&co=dag&st=gallery

https://web.archive.org/web/20080511210404/http://www.chs.org/graphcoll/augwash2.htm

Research: Frederick Douglass; Augustus Washington