Jefferson Davis
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Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: c. 1855
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 6, Folder: 54
Portrait of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Senator from Mississippi, President of the Confederate States of America and Smithsonian Regent. Davis was a friend of the first Smithsonian Secretary, Joseph Henry. Image is a portrait set in oval frame.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
"Hon. Jefferson Davis, Regent of Smithsonian Inst'n" is written on the document. The old negative number is SA-464, but that negative has been lost.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 6, Folder: 54
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1855
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Confederate States of America
Photographic print
SA-464 or 2002-32234
Color: Color; Size: 8x10; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic print