General Joseph M. Street, Iowa's first Indian agent – Historic Photograph Print
![General Joseph M. Street, Iowa's first Indian agent, [published 1897] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2c/2c3124c0752c-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic print captures General Joseph M. Street, Iowa's first Indian agent in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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General Joseph M. Street, Iowa's first Indian agent
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Joseph Montford Street, who lived from 1782 to 1840, is named here as Iowa's first Indian agent, a post that put him in charge of federal dealings with the Sauk, Meskwaki, and other Native nations in the region before Iowa became a state in 1846. This 1897 halftone was made decades after his death, so it likely reproduces an earlier portrait for a publication of the late nineteenth century. Halftone was the process that let newspapers and books of that era print photographs and portraits in quantity, so the image reflects how Iowa's frontier history was being remembered and retold.
| Created / published | [published 1897] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Portraits 1890-1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900. |
| Subjects | Street, Joseph Montford,--1782-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,221 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-185012 |
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