[Unidentified woman, probably a member of the Urias McGill family, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, holding daguerreotype case]
Summary
Case: double case, red velvet with brass leaves at the corners; also houses DAG no. 1028.
Was part of LOT 8554.
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.
Tags
Date
01/01/1855
Contributors
Washington, Augustus, 1820 or 1821-1875, photographer
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication.