[Native American]. Boudoir card of Sac and Fox Chief Keokuk originally taken by Thomas Easterly.

Boudoir photograph, 7 1/8 x 4 3/4 in., on cardstock mount with period notation in lower margin, "Keokuk - Fox Chief." The subject is also identified in the negative, "Keokuk, or the Watchful Fox, Sac & Fox." Verso with pasted label from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts.

In the spring of 1847, Thomas M. Easterly made daguerreotype portraits of Keokuk in St. Louis, MO including the original version of this image. In the 1860s, William Henry Blackmore, an Englishman, collected Native American photographs and brought them to Washington, DC to be copied for the Smithsonian Institution. A. Zeno Shindler made a wet-plate glass copy negative of this daguerreotype in 1868, and albumen prints were circulated. A.W. Baker of Ottawa, Kansas circulated images of Keokuk at the turn of the 19th century.

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[Native American]. Boudoir card of Sac and Fox Chief Keokuk originally taken by Thomas Easterly.

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