Object Details
- Easterly, Thomas M.
- Description (Brief)
- A half-length daguerreotype portrait of Native American man, wearing hat with feathers, necklace of bones, holding a bow and arrow and an ax. His face is painnted with stripes and his shirt is hand-tinted pink. This photograph is one of a series a of portrait daguerreotypes made of Native American chiefs while they crossed the country to meet with US Government officials in Washington, DC. When passing through St. Louis, Missouri, in 1851-52 these chiefs were photographed by photographers Thomas Easterly and John Fitzgibbons. Each portrait was a unique image. Daguerreotypes had no negatives; each photograph was exposed on a silver-nitrate covered copper plate. Daguerreotypes remained a popular method of capturing portraits from 1840 to 1860 when it was replaced with easier and less hazardous methods of negative-positive based photography like wet-plate collodion and albumen. Matted, not cased.
- 1851-1852
- 1847
- ID Number
- PG.003974.15
- accession number
- 121824
- catalog number
- 3974.15
- Object Name
- Daguerreotype
- Physical Description
- metal, brass (overall material)
- metal, copper (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 10.5 cm x .5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in x 3/16 in
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Men
- Portraits
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_554507
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-25f6-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
