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America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864

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[View of a Cheyenne village at Big Timbers, in present-day Colorado, with four large tipis standing at the edge of a wooded area. Frame with pemmican or hides hanging at the right; two figures, facing camera, standing to the left of center].

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[between 1853 and 1860]

NOTES
Identified as a daguerreotype by Solomon Carvalho of a Plains Indian village in Kansas Territory taken during the Frïemont Expedition in 1853, probably copied by the Mathew Brady studio. This identification was based on the fact that the daguerreotype was acquired by the Library with other daguerreotypes from the Brady studio and that Brady was hired by Frïemont to copy Carvalho's daguerreotypes on wet plate negatives.

Original served by appointment only.

Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153).

Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

Published in: Print the legend : photography and the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

Published in: Many nations: a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaskan native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996. p. 171.

Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

SUBJECTS
Indians of North America--1840-1860.
Tipis--1840-1860.
Daguerreotypes--1840-1860.

RELATED NAMES
Brady, Mathew B., 1823 (ca.)-1896.
Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 1815-1897.

MEDIUM
1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype, gold toned.

CALL NUMBER
DAG no. 251

REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZ62-110045 DLC (b&w film copy neg. post-1992)
LC-USZ62-9065 DLC (b&w film copy neg. pre-1992)

SPECIAL TERMS OF USE
No known restrictions on publication.

PART OF
Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
(b&w film copy neg. post-1992) cph 3c10045 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10045
(b&w film copy neg. pre-1992) cph 3a11575 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a11575

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