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LL/50461
Robert Cornelius
1840, May
[Robert B. Davidson, 1808-1876]

Daguerreotype, 1/6 plate
Library Company of Philadelphia
Print Dept. Cased photos - [P.9251]
 
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.
 
LL/50461


 

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