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

Was part of LOT 8554.
Case: 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.