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Last Name Carvalho

Given Name Solomon Nunes

alt. Names S. N. C. ;

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Year born 1815 in in Charleston, South Carolina

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Education self-taught painter, drawn to photography both as a potentially lucrative adjunct to his portrait business & for excitement of working on new tech

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for accompanied Col. John Charles Fremont, explorer & later presidential candidate, as photographer on Fremont's expedition across the Rocky Mountains in 1853 ;

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Techniques anthropological, ethnological, geographical, and topographic photography ; introduced a protective varnish for daguerrotypes

Sample(s) http://www.my-west.com/painting-and-sculpture/tag/john-c-fremont ; www.georgiahistory.com/containers/1746

Archival sources National Museum of American Jewish History: articles.philly.com/1990-05-04/news/25889051_1_western-photographers-american-jewish-history-portrait

Published sources Incidents of travel and adventure in the far West, with Colonel Fremont's last expedition across the Rocky Mountains, including three months' residence in Utah, and a perilous trip across the great American desert to the Pacific,1857;

other S.N.C. embraced painting, photography, invention (of improvements to steam engines), writing and adventure in the West.

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