Some two decades ago, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery acquired a 19th-century album featuring 2,000 paper portrait silhouettes, including those of George Washington and Thomas ...

Often called the most photographed American of the 19th century, Douglass had an acute understanding of the power that photography had in the struggle for African American equality. He simultaneously ...

Unique 19th-Century Double-Sided Portrait ... Phillips was an itinerant portraitist who worked for more than 50 years and produced as many as 2,000 portraits, according to the National Gallery, ...

The Portrait Project will officially install the first paintings of impactful 19th-century Black Americans in Mechanics Hall on March 14. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.