Item: Francis Johnson
Record Number: 2293
Box Number: Box 2 (oversized)
Page Number: 197
Reproduction restrictions: None
Depicts: Francis Johnson, 1792-1844
Printer: Wagner & McGuigan
Publisher: Philadelphia Arch St. Gallery of the Daguerrotype
Date of View: 1846
Date of Item: 1846
View Format: Photograph › Daguerreotype
Item Format: Print › Lithograph
Image description: 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 Ban dof 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.
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