[Solomon Nunes Carvalho portrait] [graphic]. [ca. 1870]

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[Solomon Nunes Carvalho portrait] [graphic]. [ca. 1870]

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Bust-length studio portrait of Solomon Nunes Carvalho.

1 photographic print on carte-de-visite mount : albumen ; 11 x 6 cm.

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Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 1815-1897

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Gardner, J.B.

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Solomon Nunes Carvalho was born in South Carolina of a Sephardic Jewish family. He studied portrait painting in Philadelphia and later became a daguerreotype photographer. In 1853-54 he served as official artist and photographer on John Charles Fremont's expedition from Missouri to Utah to secure a transcontinental railroad route across the Rocky Mountains. All of his plates and prints from the voyage were lost in a fire. He lived in California briefly, operating daguerreotype studios in both Lo...