Wild West on voyage from New York to London / Merritt Van Wagner. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Wild West on voyage from New York to London / Merritt Van Wagner., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wild West on voyage from New York to London / Merritt Van Wagner.
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Few pictures show the Wild West show away from the American plains quite like this group portrait, made during the company's crossing from New York to London. Photographer Merritt Van Wagner produced this albumen print on a card mount around 1887, when the troupe was bound for England. The voyage was tied to the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria that year, when Buffalo Bill's show drew large crowds in London. The image records a moment when the show's American spectacle was carried overseas, and it remains a useful document of how the company presented itself to the public.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1880-1890.Group portraits 1880-1890.Card photographs 1880-1890.Albumen prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 10405 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007. |
| Subjects | Wild west shows--1880-1890. Ocean travel--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,086 × 901 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218566 |
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