Frederick Douglass Daguerreotype Returns to Rochester

One of the earliest known photographic images of Frederick Douglass is on loan to the University of Rochester as part of a nanotechnology research project. A team of conservators, curators and researchers were present to receive the daguerreotype, an early form of photography. This pocket-sized Douglass portrait is on loan from the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, Pennsylvania, whose records describe it as: “Frederick A. Douglass presented by him to Susan B. Anthony whose niece Miss Lucy E. Antony gave it to Albert Cook Myers.”
The daguerreotype is one of the world’s first successful photographic mediums. The University of Rochester is leading groundbreaking nanotechnology research that explores the extraordinary qualities of this photographic process. An exhibition in Rush Rhees Library showcases the results of this research, while bridging the gap between the sciences and the humanities.
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