[Philip Coker, three-quarter length portrait, full face, seated, wearing spectacles]

Chaplain of the Senate of Liberia.
Photographer unidentified.
Written on back of plate: Rev. Philip Koker, Chaplain of the Senate.
Was part of LOT 8554.
Hallmark: Rinhart 20a.
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.
Exhibited: "Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, and other venues, 2006.