Date: Between 1851 and 1860
Location: Liberia
Category: Presidents & Leaders / Intellectuals
Historical Significance:
This is an authentic nineteenth-century photographic portrait of Edward Wilmot Blyden, one of the most influential intellectuals in Liberia's history. The Library of Congress identifies him as a Liberian intellectual and dates the daguerreotype to between 1851 and 1860.
Blyden became an important educator, writer, diplomat, and public intellectual in Liberia.