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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 Historic Print Archive 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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A handwritten note with this sixth-plate daguerreotype identifies the sitter as Urias McGill, a merchant of Monrovia who was born in Baltimore. The brass mat is stamped with the name of A. Washington of 136 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut, the studio of Augustus Washington, a Black daguerreotypist whose portraits are now studied as a body of work. The picture was kept with the American Colonization Society records, an organization founded in 1817 to resettle free Black Americans in Liberia. Monrovia, the colony's capital, was founded by such settlers in the 1820s, so the portrait links a New England studio to the emigrant community that the society helped establish.

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 scan3,797 × 4,750 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220323

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