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Frank Johnson portrait
Portrait (lithograph from a daguerreotype, 1846) of Francis "Frank" Johnson (1792-1844), an African-American musician and composer. Johnson was born in Martinique in the West Indies and moved to Philadelphia around 1809, where he became well-known as the leader of a dance orchestra.&...
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| Collection: | Ferdinand J. Dreer autograph collection (#0175) |
| Date: | 1846 |
| Dimensions: | 31.0 x 40.5 cm |
| Call Number: | 0175 |
| Box Number: | Box Box 2 (oversized) |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/2293 |
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Portrait (lithograph from a daguerreotype, 1846) of Francis "Frank" Johnson (1792-1844), an African-American musician and composer. Johnson was born in Martinique in the West Indies and moved to Philadelphia around 1809, where he became well-known as the leader of a dance orchestra. His compositions include cotillions, quadrilles, marches, arrangements of operatic arias, and songs, sentimental and patriotic. Johnson's Military Band of African-American musicians notably played for various military regiments and also supplied the majority share of the music performed during the celebrations of General Lafayette's triumphant return to Philadelphia in 1824. The portrait was created at the Arch St. Gallery of the Daguerreotype, at the time on 54 Arch St. |
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