photographic print(black and white);
album
- Museum number
- Am,A2.4
- Title
- Object: BM William Blackmore Coll. Album 2
- Description
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Photograph (black and white) from an album; studio portrait of Es-kel-ta-sa-la, a Coyotero Apache man, wearing western-style three piece suit, and a peace medal around his neck; Washington D.C, United States of America.
Albumen print
- Production date
- October 1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 13.50 centimetres (image)
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Height: 30.30 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 9.60 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 2541-A; -B and the following information:
DATE: Oct. 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.19 & -19A
Jackson Cat. No: 1 & 2
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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 spotted.
- 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,A2.4
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A2/19 (Old BM Blackmore collection number)