Chief Black Fox - Inaccurate Photo of Chief Black Fox

Started by Denny Wood on Saturday, September 25, 2021
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This not a photo of Cherokee Chief Black Fox, née Enola, who lived from 1722-1811 in the Southeastern region of the US, as photography had not advanced to this point of clarity by the time of his death. This is actually a photo of Chief Joe Black Fox, an Oglala Lakota Sioux who lived from 1844-1928 in the upper Midwestern Plains and traveled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The photograph was taken in 1898 by Gertrude Käsebier in her New York studio

We have some users who will casually grab any image that seems to be even vaguely appropriate.

There was *no such thing* as photography by 1811 - the earliest, very crude, successful experiments date from the mid-1820s, and it wasn't until 1839 that practical processing was developed (Louis Daguerre in France with the daguerreotype, and shortly thereafter William Henry Fox Talbot in England with salt prints and calotypes).

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