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- catalog abstract ""Resurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, Print the Legend offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book tells the story of how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their expanding nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Photography and the American West".
- catalog contributor b12624077.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Resurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, Print the Legend offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book tells the story of how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their expanding nation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-390) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 402 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300095228 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Western Americana series".
- catalog isPartOf "Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "770/.978 21".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Photography West (U.S.) History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Photography West (U.S.) History.".
- catalog subject "TR23.6 .S25 2002".
- catalog subject "West (U.S.) Pictorial works.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Photography and the American West".
- catalog title "Print the legend : photography and the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".