Previously Unknown Sixth Plate Daguerreotype Portrait of Horace Mann, along with a Small Photographic Archive of his Family

by (MANN, Horace)

$85,000 · Offered by Between the Covers

[Circa 1846]. Unbound. A remarkable group of 10 portraits of Horace Mann and his family, featuring a unique, and previously undiscovered, cased sixth plate daguerreotype of Mann, the great architect of the American system of popular education. The photos were preserved by the Mann family, and all are housed in..... More

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