| Description |
xiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Yale Western Americana series
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Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Picture stories : photography and the nineteenth-century West -- Spirit is wanting : photography and the Mexican-American War -- Of instruction for their faithfulness : panoramas, Indian galleries, and Western daguerreotypes -- Panorama of the country : government enterprise, daguerreotypes, and the exploration of the Far West -- Attempt has not met with distinguished success : early wet-plate photography and Western exploration -- Westward the course of empire : photography and the invention of an American future -- Momentoes of the race : photography and the American Indian -- Print the legend : Western photography and the illustrated book -- Epilogue : Pictures as history and memory : photography and the story of the Western past. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-390) and index. |
| Subject |
Photography -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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Photography. |
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History. |
| ISBN |
0300095228 hardcover alkaline paper |
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