Billy Bowlegs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.53887
label: Local Note
content: "Warren Thompson of Philadelphia introduced galvanizing (refers to "resilvering" or double-plated silver) to France as a part of "le procede Americain," and the firm of Christofle began to manufacture in 1851 their "scale" plates, so called because of the hallmark, a pair of scales, the government symbol for electroplated wear. "Their product was endorsed by Thompson in a letter dated March 20, 1851, which Christofle reprinted in an advertisement in the French professional photographers' magazine, La Lumiere." --Beaumont Newhall, The Daguerreotype in America, 1961, page 120.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Seminole
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
culture: label: Culture
content: Miccosukee Seminole (Mikasuki)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The original, belonging to Billy Bowlegs, was taken from his camp on November 19, 1857, by soldiers including Captain L.G. Lesley, and was inherited by the latter's grandson, Theodore Lesley of Tampa. See information with 42913.

Date: Original daguerreotype taken 1852.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (3 3/4x4 1/4 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1852
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original daguerreotype in hinged leather case. Daguerreotype plate marked, "CHRISTOFLE," and to the right of this is a maker's mark in form of an oval enclosing a pan balance with "C" on each side, 4 stars above and "CHRISTOFLE" below. Daguerretype cleaned by the Library of Congress at the request of the BAE before making this negative.