Details
Creator Cornelius, Robert, 1809-1893, daguerreotypist.
Title [Robert B. Davidson, 1808-1876.] [graphic] / Daguerreotype miniatures, by R. Cornelius, Eighth Street, above Chesnut.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1840
Date May 1840
Physical Description 1 photograph : daguerreotype ; 70 x 83 mm (sixth plate format)
Description Bust-length portrait of the Philadelphia broker and recording secretary of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society. Davidson, attired in a white collared shirt, a black cravat, a waistcoat, and a dark colored jacket, faces slightly right. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society promoted Black American emigration to resolve the problem of race inequality and to dissolve the institution of slavery.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographer's imprint printed on paper label on verso of plate.
Mounted in square ornamented brass frame with yellow painted borders.
Manuscript note in pencil on verso: "7-6-37 #25" and "Robt. B. Davidson, 1838."
Purchase 1988.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Biographical / historical note Cornelius operated the first commercial daguerreotype portrait studio in the United States.
Subject Davidson, Robert B., 1808-1876 -- Portraits.
Pennsylvania Colonization Society.
Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Brokers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Daguerreotypes -- 1840-1850.
Portrait photographs -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - photographer - Cornelius [P.9251]
Accession number P.9251