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[Urias A. McGill, half-length portrait, facing front] – Historic Photograph Print

[Urias A. McGill, half-length portrait, facing front], [between 1854 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Urias A. McGill, half-length portrait, facing front], [between 1854 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Urias A. McGill, half-length portrait, facing front]

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Urias A. McGill, identified in a handwritten note as a merchant of Monrovia, appears in this sixth plate daguerreotype, made between 1854 and 1860 and hand-colored. The double case, lined in red velvet with brass leaves at the corners, bears a stamp on its brass mat for A. Washington of 136 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut. The American Colonization Society, founded in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia, kept records that include this portrait, tying the image to the Monrovia settlement where McGill did business.

Created / published[between 1854 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860.
SubjectsCase: double case, red velvet with brass leaves at corners; also houses DAG no. 1029. Stamped on brass mat: A. Washington 136 Main St. Hartford--Ct. Accompanying hand-written note: Urias McGill, merchant of Monrovia. Died Thurs. Born in Baltimore. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). The American Colonization Society was organized in 1817 to resettle Afro-Americans in Liberia. Exhibited: A durable memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American daguerreotypist.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,252 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference709_Urias_A_McGill_halfleng_1854

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