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Unknown maker — Untitled (Portrait of Bull)

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Untitled (Portrait of Bull)

1847

Among the earliest American agricultural photographs, a prized bull poses for the camera in a daguerreotype that reveals how farmers used this expensive new medium to document their most valuable livestock.

Medium
Daguerreotype

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Unknown maker, Untitled (Portrait of Bull), 1847

Among the earliest American agricultural photographs, a prized bull poses for the camera in a daguerreotype that reveals how farmers used this expensive new medium to document their most valuable livestock.

Medium
Daguerreotype
Year
1847
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Animal, Documentary, American, Early Photography, Bull, Historical, Portrait, Daguerreotype

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