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Edmund Bacon
Credit: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia Special Collections
Original Author: Unknown
Created: Early nineteenth century
Medium: Daguerreotype

Edmund Bacon

Edmund Bacon, Thomas Jefferson's plantation overseer at Monticello from 1806 to 1822, is the subject of this daguerreotype made in the early nineteenth century.

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