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Album de Martinique
- Title
- Album de Martinique [graphic] / S. N. Carvalho.
- Author
- Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 1815-1897
- Publication
- [ca. 1872]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Album de Martinique | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Description
- 1 album (26 photographic prints); 29 x 36 cm.
- 26 photographic prints : albumen, b&w ;
- Summary
- Views of the Caribbean island of Martinique taken by S. N. Carvalho in 1872.
- Alternative Title
- Album of Martinique
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Cityscapes – Martinique – Fort-de-France.
- Landscapes (Representations) – Martinique.
- Cityscape photographs – 1870-1879.
- Landscape photographs – 1870-1879.
- Albumen prints – 1870-1879.
- Photograph albums – 1870-1879.
- Note
- Title taken from front cover.
- All photographic prints are mounted on stiff boards, pages attached with cloth hinges. Most items bear the photographer's signature, handwritten captions and date on recto; three items bear no captions or signature. Two items are duplicates.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Photocopying of original is not permitted.
- Biography (note)
- Solomon Nunes Carvalho, painter and daguerreotypist, was born in 1815, in Charleston, South Carolina, into a Jewish family of Spanish-Portugese descent. He would establish himself as a portrait painter and studio photographer, mainly in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, from the 1830s to the 1870s, but was best known as the photographer for explorer John C. Fremont's 1853-54 expedition from Missouri to Utah to locate a potential railroad route to the Pacific. Carvalho's experience with Fremont was recounted in his 1856 publication "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West." With his eyesight failing in the 1870s, he ended his business and lived comfortably off the financial rewards made from a pressurized steam engine that he had invented. Carvalho died in New York City in 1897.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Album de Martinique
- OCLC
- 191750646
- Author
- Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 1815-1897, photographer.
- Title
- Album de Martinique [graphic] / S. N. Carvalho.
- Imprint
- [ca. 1872]
- Terms Of Use
- Photocopying of original is not permitted.
- Biography
- Solomon Nunes Carvalho, painter and daguerreotypist, was born in 1815, in Charleston, South Carolina, into a Jewish family of Spanish-Portugese descent. He would establish himself as a portrait painter and studio photographer, mainly in Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, from the 1830s to the 1870s, but was best known as the photographer for explorer John C. Fremont's 1853-54 expedition from Missouri to Utah to locate a potential railroad route to the Pacific. Carvalho's experience with Fremont was recounted in his 1856 publication "Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West." With his eyesight failing in the 1870s, he ended his business and lived comfortably off the financial rewards made from a pressurized steam engine that he had invented. Carvalho died in New York City in 1897.
- Local Note
- Also available on microfilm in General Research and Reference Division: Sc Micro R-1475.
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- Other Title
- Album of Martinique
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Album de Martinique