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Description Alexander Gardner, by Mathew Brady Studio, circa 1861, Albumen silver prints, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Note: n this self-portrait taken at Mathew Brady’s Washington studio, Alexander Gardner presents himself wearing the garb of a mountain man or trapper, sporting buckskins and a fur hat; Gardner’s trademark full, ungroomed beard only adds to the frontiersman image. Gardner holds a bow and arrow while standing on Indian rugs. The image captures America’s enduring fascination with the West and adopting the garb of Native peoples. It also shows Gardner, a man about whom we know little, in disguise, hiding himself in a fictional frontier persona. Although he is acting a role, Gardner, whose family had bought land in Iowa in the antebellum period, was genuinely interested in the western lands and the fate of the Indians. In the 1860s he began his project of photographing the western tribal delegations when they came to Washington. After the Civil War he went west to photograph Indians on their native grounds.
Date circa 1861
date QS:P,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2002.86
Author Mathew Brady Studio
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