[Beverly Page Yates, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, seated at table, holding rolled piece of paper]
Summary
Vice president of Liberia. Served as the Associate Justice of Liberia and the Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas for Montserrado County. Helped found the Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons, in 1867.
Photographer unidentified.
Written on back of plate: Beverly Page Yates, Vice President of the Republic of Liberia.
Was part of LOT 8554.
Transfer; Manuscript Division.
Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia.
Exhibited: A durable memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American daguerreotypist.
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