Unidentified Photographer

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Sam Houston

ca. 1850-55
daguerreotype
8.2 x 7.0 cm., 1/6 plate
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEGS: 25540 5715
78:0758:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Beaumont. --The Daguerreotype in America.-- New York: Dover Publications, 1976. pl. 92.//
Pfister, Harold Francis. --Facing the Light: Historic American Portrait Daguerreotypes.-- Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution, 1978. p. 67.//
Kismaric, Susan. --American Politicians: Photographs from 1845 to 1993.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./The Museum of Modern Art, 1994. p. 57.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 59.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"American Photography: 1839-1900", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 29, 1989 - January 7, 1990.//
"American Politicians: Photographs, 1840-1993", US, NY, New York, Museum of Modern Art, October 4, 1994 - January 3, 1995. (Traveled).//

NOTES: Catalogued 10/84, DZ. Sam Houston was President of the Republic of Texas, a United States Senator, and later, Governor of Texas.

SUBJECT: personage, politician / Houston, Sam