[Unidentified woman, probably a member of the Urias McGill family, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, holding daguerreotype case] – Historic Photograph Print
![[Unidentified woman, probably a member of the Urias McGill family, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, holding daguerreotype case], [1855] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6d/6d4cb5085b03-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Unidentified woman, probably a member of the Urias McGill family, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, holding daguerreotype case], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Unidentified woman, probably a member of the Urias McGill family, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, holding daguerreotype case]
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A sixth-plate daguerreotype from 1855, hand-colored, this portrait shows an unidentified woman, probably a member of the Urias McGill family, holding a daguerreotype case of her own. The image is held in the American Colonization Society records, a group founded in 1817 to resettle African Americans in Liberia, which helps explain how such a family portrait reached an institutional archive. The red velvet double case, with brass leaves at the corners, is worth a close look, and the portrait was later shown in an exhibition on Augustus Washington, a Black daguerreotypist who himself emigrated to Liberia in 1853.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1850-1860.Daguerreotypes 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Case: double case, red velvet with brass leaves at the corners; also houses DAG no. 1028. 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. |
| Subjects | McGill, Urias A.--Family. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,285 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 699_Unidentified_woman_prob_1855 |
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