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Robert Cornelius 
[Robert B. Davidson, 1808-1876] 
1840, May 
  
Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate 
Library Company of Philadelphia 
Print Dept. Cased photos - [P.9251] 
  
 
LL/50461 
  
Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia broker and recording secretary of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society. The society promoted black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality, and to dissolve the institution of slavery. 
 

 
  
 
  
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