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LL/68016
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Unidentified photographer, 1851, 26 July, The Sitgreaves Expedition Down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers, Daguerreotype, , LL/68016
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."
 
Reproduced in the 2007 Daguerreian Annual.
 
LL/68016
 


 

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