Unidentified photographer, 1851, 26 July, The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers, Daguerreotype, , LL/68016
Unidentified photographer 1851, 26 July The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers
Daguerreotype Wes Cowan (Facebook, The Daguerreian Society, 26 July 2016) wrote: "This plate was exposed in what is now Oklahoma, and is the earliest image taken in that state. It is also the earliest photograph that has survived from a Government sponsored expedition to the West."