Cash Money Washington

Cash Money Washington

Cash Money Washington

Augustus Washington was born to a former slave in Trenton, New Jersey in 1820 or 1821. As a teenager, he was drawn to abolitionist teachings and aspired to be a scholar. He was educated at Oneida Institute in New York, Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire and Dartmouth College.

One of the First Daguerreotype Studios in Hartford

Having learned the fledgling medium of photography to earn money while at Dartmouth from 1843 to 1844, Washington opened a daguerreotype studio in Hartford, Connecticut in 1846. Historian Martin R. Delaney wrote in 1852 that Washington was “an artist of fine taste and perception” who “numbered among the most successful Daguerreotypists in Hartford.”