[Edward J. Roye, three-quarter length portrait, standing, with hand raised] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Edward J. Roye, three-quarter length portrait, standing, with hand raised], [between 1856 and 1860] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/84/8470b0f80948-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: [Edward J. Roye, three-quarter length portrait, standing, with hand raised], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Edward J. Roye, three-quarter length portrait, standing, with hand raised]
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A handwritten note on the back of this sixth-plate daguerreotype identifies the sitter as Edward James Roye, senator from Montserrado County, Liberia. Roye emigrated to Liberia in the 1840s and later served as the country's president, a term cut short by his death in 1871. The plate is part of the American Colonization Society records, the organization founded in 1817 to resettle Black Americans in Liberia. The photographer is unidentified, but the portrait, dated between 1856 and 1860, reflects the studio conventions of the period, including the formal standing pose and the careful presentation of a public official.
| Created / published | [between 1856 and 1860] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype. |
| Notes | Photographer unidentified. Written on back of plate: Ed. J. Roye, Senator from Montserrado Co. Transfer; Manuscript Division. Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 98. 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. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Exhibited: Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century |
| Subjects | Roye, Edward James,--1815-1871. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,336 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 581_Edward_J_Roye_threequar_1856 |
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