| Unidentified photographer Virginia Regiment, Calle Real 1847-1848 (ca) Daguerreotype 8 x 10 cm Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Call number: WA Photos 26, Image ID Number: 1005277 LL/38170 Taken during the Mexican War, 1846-1848.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/62_14.htm [Accessed 20 June 2010] for the PBS program "New Perspectives on The West" gave the following caption:
A daguerreotype showing Major Lucien B. Webster's battery in the mountains north of Buena Vista, Mexico, following an important American victory in the Mexican War.
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