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Shlaer, Robert.

Sights once seen : daguerreotyping Frémont's last expedition through the Rockies / by Robert Shlaer ; featuring 125 daguerreotypes by the author.

Santa Fe, N.M. : Museum of New Mexico Press, ©2000.

x, 165 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 x 29 cm

During a time when discovering a transcontinental railway route through the Rocky Mountains was politically expedient for antislavery forces, John C. Fremont's final expedition was undertaken starting from Kansas Territory to survey the 38th parallel. The expedition having ended in Utah, the daguerrotype photographs taken by expedition photographer Solomon Carvallo were later lost in a fire. Now photographer and author Robert Shlaler has traveled Fremont and Carvallo's route and recreated their lost daguerreotypes.

Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 1815-1897.

Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.

Daguerreotype -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.

West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-165).

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Documentation of Early Exploration in the United States -- Early Attempts at Expeditionary Daguerreotypy -- The "Central Route" to the Pacific -- The Origins of Fremont's Fifth, His Last Expedition to the West -- The Daguerreotype Process in 1853 -- Reconstructing Fremont's Fifth Expedition -- How Carvalho Made Daguerreotypes for Fremont -- Moder Daguerreotypy: The Author's Experience -- The Daguerreotype Plates -- Kansas: Crossing the Plains -- Big Timbers: The Last Contact with Civilization -- Beyond the Continental Divide -- The Deserts of Utah -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.

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