Object Details
- Easterly, Thomas M.
- Description (Brief)
- Half-length portrait of Native American man wearing head dress with feathers, necklaces and bangles. He is bare-chested and has painted stripes on arms, chest & face.He holds a tomahawk, and his face is hand-tinted pink, and ornaments are blue & gold. 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. In March 1847, 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1851-1852
- 1847
- ID Number
- PG.003974.16
- accession number
- 121824
- catalog number
- 3974.16
- Object Name
- Daguerreotype
- Physical Description
- metal, copper (overall material)
- glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 14 cm x 11.5 cm x .5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 4 17/32 in x 3/16 in
- place made
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
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- United States: Missouri, St. Louis
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Portraits
- Men
- Native Americans
- Record ID
- nmah_554508
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-c27b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
