[Edward J. Roye, three-quarter length portrait, standing, with hand raised] [graphic].
Washington, Augustus, 1820 or 1821-1875, photographer.
still image
Portrait photographs 1850-1860. gmgpc
Daguerreotypes 1850-1860. gmgpc
[between 1856 and 1858]
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Photograph shows Liberian Edward J. Roye who served as speaker of the Liberian House of Representatives (1849-1850), chief justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia and President of Liberia from 1870 to 1871.
Photograph attributed to Augustus Washington. (Source: Carol Johnson, "Faces of Freedom: Portraits from the American Colonization Society Collection" in The Daguerreian Annual, 1996)
Written on back of plate: Ed. J. Roye, Senator from Montserrado Co.
Was part of LOT 8554.
Manuscript Division.
Forms part of: American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964 (Library of Congress).
Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 98.
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.
Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
Exhibited: "Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, and other venues, 2006.
Roye, Edward James, 1815-1871.
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)
Records,
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03594
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d01933
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a41503
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