photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A1.4
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 1
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Red Cloud (Ma-kpe-ah-lou-tah), an Oglala Lakota chief, in three-quarter profile, wearing a suit and tie; Washington D.C, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- May 1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.30 centimetres (image)
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Height: 30.30 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 9.80 centimetres (image)
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Width: 25.30 centimetres (mount)
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- Curator's comments
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Related information: the negative for this image is held by the Smithsonian Institution. A copy of the catalogue card for this image can be found in the picdoc for this image. The card indicates that the Smithsonian negative number is 3236 and the following information:
DATE: May 1872
PHOTOGRAPHER: Alexander Gardner, Wash., D.C.
REMARKS: "Taken on their visit to Washington, D.C. May 1872 by Alex. Gardiner, For The Trustees of Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England"
Blackmore colln. No.:I-1A.
Jackson Cat. No.:297
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Related information: this image was taken by Gardner in Washington DC, when a delegation of Native North Americans traveled there to meet with United States Government officials.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Image badly fading and spotting on the print from the bronze powder on the mount.
- Acquisition date
- 1932
- Acquisition notes
- The 'Disposal book of the Salisbury South Wilts and Blackmore Museum No. 1 1928-1952' reports the disposal of a: "Photographs of North American Indians and miscellanea" given to the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography of the British Museum. It is dated 24th February 1932.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,A1.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A1/1A (Old BM Blackmore collection number)