Chief Seattle, 1866
Title
Chief Seattle , 1866
Identifier
spl_shp_14733
Description (transcribed from original)
Transcribed from front of photograph : "Seattle . Portraits . Seattle , Chief of the Suquamish and allied tribes , 1786?-1866. " Transcribed from back of photograph : "The original from which this photograph was made , was taken in 1866 by Richard Sam[m]is a few months before Chief Seattle's death , at the instigation of C.B . Bagley . About 1907 it was enlarged and retouched by James A. Wehn (a drape and a grecian urn were eliminated from the background and a cane removed from the Chief's hands. " Handwritten on recto : "E.M . Sammis acc . to article in Seattle Sun , March 1 , 1978. "
Subjects (LCSH)
Seattle, Chief, 1790-1866 Suquamish Indians--Washington (State)--Seattle Seattle (Wash.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographer
Sammis, E.M.
Address
Unknown
Date Created
1866
Decade
1860/1869
Type
image
Local Type
photographs
Physical Measurements
13.92 x 24.52 cm
Digitization Specifications
Master images scanned on Epson 10000 XL flatbed at 600 ppi, 24 bit color, and saved as TIFF files. Adobe Photoshop used to resize images to 300 ppi and convert to JPEG format. Master file size: 57,144,744 bytes.
Digital Collection
Seattle Historical Photograph Collection
Rights and Reproduction
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Publication Status
Published
Copyright Status
No Copyright - United States
Rights URI
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Copyright Notes
This item is in the public domain . No known copyright restrictions identified by the library at the time of scanning in March 2018 . Although the publication status is unknown , works published prior to 1923 are considered to be in the public domain and unpublished works have a copyright term of the life of the creator plus 70 years . Since the photographer of this item was born in 1838 and most likely died before 1948 , the copyright term for their work has expired .
Date Digital
2012-10-28
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