The slave daguerreotypes of the Peabody Museum: Scientific meaning and utility

History of Photography

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-54

  Rogers, Molly ^a  

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Author keywords

Anthropology and photography; Daguerreotypes; Ethnology and photography; Joseph T. Zealy (1814 1892); Louis Agassiz (1807 1873); Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University, Cambridge MA); Robert W. Gibbes (1809 1866); Slaves in photography

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249428461     PISSN: 03087298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2006.10442838     Document Type: Article

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