Frederick Douglass has been
designated as the most photographed American in the 19th century.
Zoe Trodd, a professor and
chair of American Literature in the Department of American and Canadian Studies
at the University of Nottingham, found this fact out while doing research
project for a pair of scholarly projects on the famous abolitionist and working
on her book for W.W.Norton. While searching through all of the known
photographs of Frederick Douglass, she found that he was the most photographed
American of the 19th century, according to her recently published article in
the New Haven Register, a daily newspaper published in New Haven, Connecticut.
At least 160 photographs of
Douglass have been found since Dr. Trodd started her project.
“General George Armstrong Custer
used to be considered the most photographed American of the 1800s with around
155 known photos, following President Abraham Lincoln and the writer Walt
Whitman with 130 photos each,” Dr. Trodd said to the New Haven Register.
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