Books: The Secrets of an 1868 Photo of a Native American Girl
A scholar of 19th-century American photography, Martha A. Sandweiss undertook an effort to identify the people in an 1869 photograph made by Alexander Gardner in Fort Laramie Wyoming. The handwritten labels on the extant copies of the photograph identified the men in the image, including General William Tecumseh Sherman. A girl in the …
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