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The photographers recruited to accompany Western expeditions, working alongside surveyors, topographers, and cartographers were decisive contributors to the popular iconography of expansion in the American West during the nineteenth century. Through the auspices of one of the era’s strongest advocates of Manifest Destiny, Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, the Sephardic Jewish painter and daguerreotypist Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897) produced one of the more ambiguous, and overlooked, accounts by a photographer during this early phase of full-scale Westward expansion.

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This page is a summary of: The Pandora's Box of Solomon Carvalho: Ethnic Transformation in the Age of Manifest Destiny, Western American Literature, January 2018, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/wal.2018.0055.
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